Just north of Santa Fe, aspen trees cover much of the western face of Santa Fe Mountain, starting at about 7,200’ elevation up to 8,000 – 8,500’, as part of the Sangre de Cristo range. During September and October, aspen leaves change to a range of vivid electric yellows and oranges that are especially striking against their tall, slender, nearly white trunks.
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One of my favorite locations in New Mexico — the Bosque Del Apache — is situated along the eastern side of the Rio Grande 160 miles south of Albuquerque. It reminds me so much of where I lived for 12 years on the eastern shore of Maryland — 10 miles up the Miles River from the Chesapeake Bay — before moving to Santa Fe.
The eastern shore is very flat and surrounded by the Chesapeake Bay to the west, and the Atlantic Ocean to the east, with numerous rivers, and lots of wetlands and marshes; the Bosque del Apache too is very flat and is surrounded by the Rio Grande and its canals creating its wetlands.
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2013
I’m now half-way through introducing the results of my visual exploration of the 12,000′ Sangre de Cristo mountain ridge clustered around Santa Fe Baldy, New Mexico’s 4th highest peak, just north of Santa Fe.
Reducing the variables in each image – shooting from the same location, and at nearly the same time – reveals not only what I am seeing, but how I am seeing. Blending my motion-strokes against the mountain tops emphasizes the light’s particular hue, and how that hue casts upon Santa Fe Baldy.
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A leitmotif is a recurrent theme throughout a composition, associated with a particular person, idea, or situation. More often used to describe a repeated musical or literary strain of thinking, I want to apply it to a visual theme. I am currently in the throes of creating and assembling a series of visual studies of the same visual composition whose variables have been reduced to the available light and camera stroke utilized in blending their elements.
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Modern China is the strangest place I have ever visited, overwhelmed with people and staggering amounts of new construction throughout the country, all obfuscated by the very controlled media.
From the first night, upon logging onto the internet, China’s government-imposed censorship was immediately obvious. The Chinese people really only read what they are allowed to read, hear what they are told to hear… What can their citizens know for sure? It certainly makes me appreciate the privilege “freedom of speech” in our country.
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