Well, I dropped the ball last week partly because I couldn’t choose among four images. This week has been busy and not too successful. I spent a little time at the Railroad Museum in Sacramento but I didn’t have enough quarters to feed the parking meter so time was limited. Iike the way this photo… Continue reading Fruit Box Label
Blue Swallow Motel
This one fits into my Route 66 project, my In Search of New Mexico Project and my nostalgia theme. The Blue Swallow Motel in Tucumcari, NM is an iconic and lovingly restored motor court dating to the early 1940’s. I myself was too slow in getting my reservation request in for one of their 12… Continue reading Blue Swallow Motel
Typewriter Keys
I’m still on the nostalgia kick. I photographed this typewriter at a museum in Deming, NM back in March. Once again the original was not that interesting but once I processed it in Nik Color Efex Pro it really started to pop. I love how the S key is turned slightly and all the little… Continue reading Typewriter Keys
Northern New Mexico Village
I’m still experimenting in the digital darkroom. I stumbled on this village in Rio Arriba County back in 2007. The original photo seemed kind of bland and boring but when I added a painting filter from Topaz simplify it really brought out the colors and perhaps erased some of the harshness of poverty. I was… Continue reading Northern New Mexico Village
Deck Chairs
I took a workshop with George DeWolfe last fall. He had been a student of Ansel Adams and he said that Ansel thought it took about seven years to get a print just right. Well this image must be about there because it has been about six years. I shot the image in color but… Continue reading Deck Chairs
Wagon Wheel
Here’s another one from El Rancho. I added a solarization filter in Color Efex Pro along with a film effects vintage. It looked too faded to me so I went back and added a brilliance warmth filter which brought in some nice color while keeping the solarized look. Then I added a border effect which… Continue reading Wagon Wheel
Wine Bottles
These wine bottles were found sitting on the window sill of an old adobe building used as a winery at El Rancho de los Golondorinos, now a living history museum. I wanted to highlight the glow of the sun through the bottles. That required opening up a stop or two in the dark room but… Continue reading Wine Bottles
Lilypads
Here’s another one from last month’s trip to the botanic gardens. I really liked the pattern these lillypads made on the koi pond in the Japanese Garden. The fish swimming around and reflected trees made some interesting patterns in the water. I also like the contrast of the red and green leaves. In Nik I… Continue reading Lilypads
Decaying Adobe wall with window
This week I got back on the road with my In Search of New Mexico project with a trip to Guadalupe County. I had a great time photographing the old cars at the Route 66 Car Museum, the old buildings in Santa Rosa, and the abandoned buildings along old Route 66 east of town. In… Continue reading Decaying Adobe wall with window
Dutch Iris
Well, school is over and I have no one to answer to but myself this week. Everyone seems to like my flower pictures best so I headed back down to the Botanic Gardens in Albuquerque to see what was in bloom. The Irises definitely had center stage but I also found some poppies and columbines… Continue reading Dutch Iris