Week 36 - 2018 in Photographs

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Skeletons of Cottonwoods

 These photographs are still from the brief vacation on the Rio Grande shore. Vacations are to refresh the spirit and I believe this is particularly true for artists. As a photographer being able to focus on different subjects from time to time is important. 

I normally argue that it is my familiarity with a subject which yields the best photographs. Ansel Adams believed that. He went back again and again to favorite subjects. It helps to discover just went the light is the best.

I often feel after a series of photographs of a new area I need to go back; do it again. I feel that way about the Bosque. The light is so different from my mountain home. And during my four days at Tamaya Resort the air was smoke filled from the California fires. That did add to the dawns but it generally flattened the light.

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Cottonwoods along the trail

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New Mexico Olives

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The tangle of the Bosque

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High Desert Bird of Paradise

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What was the one "clear" day

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Dawn at Tamaya

Week 35 - 2018 in Photographs

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If last week was all about flowers this week is all about trees along the Rio Grande. The Bosque is the largest urban forest and because of flood control measures over the last 20 years it is suffering. The cottonwood trees which dominate the forest require the occasional flood to stay healthy and to aid in seeding new cottonwoods.

The Tamaya Resort where my sister and I chose to vacation this fall is on the Santa Ana Pueblo land. The peoples of this pueblo are working to save and restore their section of the Bosque. Walking the trails on the Bosque beside the river is restorative and even magical. It was a challenge to capture with a camera.

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