Photo of the day

I read that this evening would find us with the biggest and brightest full moon of 2012 and it did not dissapoint.  It’s the 2012 Supermoon, shot from Albuquerque. I did however need to jump into the car after I loaded up my tripod and camera so that I could get closer to the mountain […]

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Six hour hike / snowshoe climb to the summit on the La Luz trail. Full story with panorama links here.

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The weather has been without drama for the past several weeks and the last several road trips did not yield any photos, although not for the lack of trying.  So while working on a new gallery of wildflowers I was tweaking the color settings when I decided to get a bit radical because of the […]

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Ok, so it takes a while sometimes to get them posted – but this is the best of Tuesday morning as the moon was setting over Mt. Taylor, about 70 miles west of where I live. The larger image is here.

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I headed out to the top of the mountain today to try out my Christmas present – snow shoes. At the tram boarding I shot this photo which missed the top speed that I saw, 55mph. I looked up the wind-chill for those figures and it was 4 degrees F. I slogged through the snow […]

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Sunset highlights the Sandias – taken through my office window.

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After being in New Mexico for 6 fall seasons I can say that it’s pretty hard to find much red in our trees.  The usual color is yellow, and occasionally we get some orange, but you can generally rule out the bright reds of the sugar maples found in the midwest and northeast. Occasionally however, […]

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We all knew that this day was upon us, because we have had two teases since the first snow on the second weekend of the Balloon Fiesta. I climbed it yesterday, but didn’t take out the camera, nothing really stuck my fancy.  Above 9,000 feet there was about an inch or two on the trail […]

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A 4:45am wake up sent me to the computer in the other room to check the actual weather conditions at the balloon fiesta park.  Fearful of the forecast, I was most pleased that the winds were calm.  We woke our guest and were out the door just after 5:30. Later in the park she said […]

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What a weekend. I think I took more photos of more unusual things than I’ve ever done on a single weekend before. A cold front brought tons of rain and snow for the high elevations. The full sized image is here.  (After the image loads in the browser window, click on it for a full […]

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