There was a full moon on Saturday, and a clear, crisp night. I had my 200mm lens, but no tripod, so I just bumped up the ISO as much as I could and shot this freehand:
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It’s not perfect – by no means a crisp, clear shot – but it turned out way better than I thought it would.
Every year, the National Hispanic Cultural Center has a community event for Dia de los Muertos – the Day of the Dead:
Each year in observance of Día de Muertos, the NHCC invites students, teachers and general public to create and display ofrendas (altars) in honor of loved ones, pets and community leaders who have passed away. This installation of ofrendas is always beautiful, engaging and respectful of the traditional celebration. This year, the installation includes an ofrenda created by artist, Jacobo de la Serna in remembrance of bicyclists that have lost their lives on New Mexico roads. Artist, Catalina Delgado Trunk designed an altar for the community to bring their offerings and remembrances on the evening of November 2.
In addition to the ofrendas, the event had an arts and crafts portion where attendees were invited to decorate sugar skulls, make papercrafts, and to screen print their own tshirts. Here are my photos. All were taken with my dad’s 50mm lens. Even though it’s 30 years old, it still takes some amazing shots.
For Krista’s mom’s birthday this July, we went hiking to the top of one of Gallup’s highest points – Pyramid Peak. It was a great hike with spectacular views, even despite getting lost on the way down, and Krista’s mom smoked the rest of us youngins.
Zenphoto destroyed my photo albums. Here is my first attempt to recreate them.
I took this photo back when the whole “Double Rainbow” video was going viral.
I’ve added a new photo gallery for the 2010 Albuquerque Pride Parade that took place this June.
A cholla cactus in full bloom in Albuquerque
A cactus blossom burns deep red on an Albuquerque afternoon
A few weekends ago I was tabling for BikeABQ at Coronado Mall. The event was focused on kids’ fitness, and so in addition to our ragtag bicycling outfit, there were people promoting exercise, dance, and even gardening.
There was a little dance troupe of about ten kids dancing around in various traditional costume, and they had some great facial expressions.
The boys in the troupe in general didn’t seem especially enthused to be dancing with icky girls, but when they were free from the risk of cooties, they hammed it up a bit.
The one little guy on the end in particular had some great facial expressions.
After the performance, the crowd milled around a bit. Next to me was a booth for the Rio Grande Community Farm, where Sara was helping kids plant seeds in ingenious little planters made from recycled newspaper. Lobo Lucy watched carefully.
Meanwhile, UNM mascot Lobo Louie was chatting it up with the ladies.
That wolf sure knows how to howl! Of course, he and I got into a bit of trouble with Mall Security when I started riding him around the mall on my Xtracycle. Though that didn’t stop the head of security from taking a picture for his kids with his phone.
Now that I have my shiny new Nikon D300s, I need to get out and shoot with it. After lunch the other day I just decided to walk around downtown and get some shots of the blossoming trees. It had been snowing earlier in the morning – big puffy flakes – but by noon the snow had melted and the sun had come out.
Peeling Paint
