Santa Fe Plaza ...

~ Santa Fe, New Mexico ~

Morning Glory

Bosque del Apache, NM.

"Photography is a way of feeling, of touching, of loving." ~ Aaron Siskind

Birdland

Bosque del Apache, New Mexico.

Super Nature

... supernatural.

Socorro, New Mexico

"The goal is not to change your subjects, but for the subjects to change the photographer."

~Author Unknown

Desert Dawn

Socorro, New Mexico

"The soul cannot think without a picture." ~ Aristotle

Invisible Walls

Polvadera, New Mexico

"Art is the highest task and proper metaphysical activity of this life." ~ Friedrich Nietzsche

Luz Encantado

Socorro, New Mexico.

“The camera is an instrument that teaches people how to see without a camera.”

~ Dorthea Lange

Transformation

Socorro, New Mexico

"You can become blind by seeing each day as a similar one. Each day is a different one, each day brings a miracle of its own. It's just a matter of paying attention to this miracle. "

~ Paulo Coelho

Skylight

Sometimes I do get to places just when God's ready to have somebody click the shutter.

~Ansel Adams

Bosque Sunrise

Bosque del Apache, New Mexico.

Socorro Peak

...aka "M" Mountain (7243 feet), Socorro, New Mexico.

"The ultimate goal is not for the phographer to change the subjects, but for the subjects to change the photographer."

~Author Unknown

Lone Rider

La Joya, New Mexico.

Blue Skies

... and bare trees.

San Pedro, New Mexico.

Running Tree

Polvadera, New Mexico.

Somehow along the line this massive old cottonwood tree (150+ ft.) developed a large enough natural cavity in it's trunk so that a person can now comfortably stand inside it. I know because I've done it many times myself. It's great for getting out of the elements (not recommended for lightning storms) or for just leaning back in and contemplating the universe while the sun sets. Cottonwood leaves make a great sound in the wind and of couse the birds are always flitting about it's branches. It's a cool old tree to hang out with/in.

As you can see, from just the right angle, it appears that this ancient cottonwood is walking... more likely running. Heading for the hills. Well, probably towards the river actually and the relative safety of the protected Rio Grande Bosque and the cottonwoods there.

I'd be running too, if I knew about the fate of most of my other brethren of this area... and thus ultimately mine also.

Sadly, it's one of the last of many cottonwoods that use to populate this middle Rio Grande flood plain that's now been almost completely cleared for agriculture.

I hope whatever it appears to be trying to get away from never catches it.

Socorro County Sunsets

Some nice recent ones.

"M" Mountain, Socorro

Yucca, Bosque del Apache

El Camino, Socorro

Ladron Mountains, Bernardo

The real voyage of discovery
consists not in seeking new landscapes
but in having new eyes.
Marcel Proust

To be continued...

Window

... Shadow.

Midway School, Polvadera, New Mexico.

Liquid Sunset... (Slight Return)

From within or from behind
a light shines through us upon things
and makes us aware that we are nothing
but the light is all.

~Ralph Waldo Emerson

Liquid Sunset

"M" Mountain of Socorro, NM at 7,283 ft with the Fine Arts Pond at New Mexico Tech in the foreground.

Light comes to us unexpectedly and obliquely. Perhaps it amuses the gods to try us. They want to see whether we are asleep.

~H.M. Tomlinson

In the right light, at the right time, everything is extraordinary.

~Aaron Rose

Water World

Hidden Pond, Lemitar, New Mexico



We may not have much water in NM, but what we do have sure makes for some great reflections of the spectacular skies we enjoy here.

Especially around sunset.

"The Upholder of the Cycles which supports the whole of Life, is water. In every drop of water dwells the Godhead, whom we all serve; there also dwells Life, the Soul of the "First" substance - Water - whose boundaries and banks are the capillaries that guide it and in which it circulates. More energy is encapsulated in every drop of good spring water than an average-sized PowerStation is presently able to produce."

-Viktor Schauberger

Enchanted Sunset

New Mexico Tech Golf Course, Socorro, New Mexico.

A late afternoon storm had just moved through and the sun was going down. The perfect combination for some pictures.

It is all very beautiful and magical here - a quality which cannot be described. You have to live it and breathe it, let the sun bake into you. The skies and the lands are so enormous, and the detail so precise and exquisite that wherever you are you are isolated into a glowing world between the macro and the micro, where everything is sidewise under you and over you, and the clocks stopped long ago.

Ansel Adams