Digital versus physical

Draw your own conclusion.

Church of Santo Tomas Del Rio de Las Trampas

As we gained altitude on the road to Taos, we found ourselves very near the clouds which presented new and interesting challenges. Challenges such as improving contrast and our poor old blood oxygenated. This church was fascinating in that it had a feel of a village church, created from the passion of the less fortunate.

Ranchos de Taos

Elena & I had such a wonderful time attending Carol Leigh’s class in Santa Fe.  We keep going back to the variety of locations visited and the sensational photographic opportunities encountered.  Once again, we pay homage to Carol Leigh who taught us new ways of seeing and new methods of image capture.

After a few weeks, we have been reflecting on some of the visual highlights and decided to revisit and share some of those experiences with you.  One of those places was the San Francisco de Asis Mission Church in a little place on the road to Taos called Ranchos de Taos.  The church is located on a plaza both made famous by Georgia O’Keeffe and Ansel Adams.  Here are a few pictures of this wonderful place. 

Our project for this week is to share these places of interest within our blog.  It allows us to revisit these memories and work on our photo culling and editing.

5 crosses



Adobe church



Hey Sweetie, I found that retirement fixer upper

The cross and the skull on wood

St Francisco de Asis mission church

Blue door in a plaza

One of the most photographed doors in  the US

Shoot out in Dallas West End

Elena suggested that we should get out with the cameras somewhere we haven’t shot in a while.  Mainly to self test our new knowledge acquired from the variety of classes recently taken.

So we decided on downtown Dallas.  Okay partner, this town isn’t big enough for two Canon DLSRs, we will have a shoot out on Main St at dawn.  Now, imagine a little Italian Western music, a western street devoid of activity, two stern faced gunslingers with Canon DLSR’s on their hips.  It didn’t take long, once the gun smoke cleared, only one shooter was left standing…and it wasn’t me. 

I got smoked!!!  Elena’s keen eye saw so many shots before I even decided whether to go shutter or aperture priority.  Enjoy these shots, we suffered for our art this time.  Even though the temperature was in the low 80’s, the humidity had to be above 80%.  Try composing your shot, yourself while sweat is running down your back and down your nose.  Not a pretty picture. 

Elena performed her magic and shazzam, interesting pictures.  One place we found that tickled our funny bone was “the Heart Attack Café.”  Who ever did the concept on this had a sense of humor akin to mine.  Look for those pictures.  Readers! If you happen to exceed 350 lbs., you can eat for FREE at The Heart Attack Café.

Happy 4-th of July

Black eyed Susan

Combining Macro photography and Photomontage. Macrontage?

The word of wisdom

I don't know where you get your wisdom.

I found an endless source of wisdom in comics by Bill Watterson "Calvin and Hobbes". 

This is what I got so far, take a look.

Why isn't my life like a situation comedy?



Why aren't my conversations peppered with spontaneous witticisms?

Why don't my friends demonstrate heartfelt
concern for my well being when I have problems?

Why don't I have a bunch of friends with nothing better to do
but drop by and instigate wacky adventures?

I gotta get my life some writers.

God put me on this earth to accomplish a certain number of things.
Right now I am so far behind that I will never die.

-You can't just turn on creativity like a faucet. You have to be in the right mood.
- What mood is that?
- Last minute panic.