I fell in love with Bosque del Apache in the middle of a bleak and windy winter.  Despite living in New Mexico for thirty years, I had never taken the time to visit there until this year.  The joy and the happiness of the birds who winter there is magical, and the hues of gold, sienna, amber and rust just warm the soul. It’s a place to rest, to reminisce and to cherish your kinship with Nature. I will go back . . . many, many more...

Who would think that getting married in the lobby of a theater was worth considering?  Well, if it’s the Spencer Theater in Ruidoso, New Mexico, get ready for a pretty spectacular scene inside and out.  The lobby is set against the theater and glistens like a jewel against the New Mexico landscape.  Photographing a wedding there was a little bit of a challenge with the afternoon sun shining through the glass, reflecting off metal...

  I live in the Southwest not just for the glorious, wide-open and colorful spaces, but for the three-hundred days of sunshine which I believe are guaranteed to us!  This seemed to have been an incredibly endless winter.  We were having blizzards and bitter cold on a weekly basis, and here it was, the first day of spring and the wind and snow were blowing.  Libby and I would be each other’s cheering section, “Oh, but what a...

I spent a glorious afternoon at the Alameda Park Zoo in Alamogordo, Mew Mexico.  My mission was to test the 70-300 mm Nikkor lens on my D200 and I was sure to find willing subjects there.  It’s a charming little zoo with kind and friendly personnel.  Many of the animals are there because they would not survive in the wild.  The golden eagle is an example.  His wing is damaged so he can’t fly and he has no right eye.  But this...

The night of January 30th of this year, was the rise of the Wolf Moon.  Always on the lookout for interesting photo ops,  my best buddy Libby and I packed up our gear, bundled up in winter gear, and headed out to the Fort Stanton military cemetery with our thermos of  “enhanced” coffee.  We knew we had to catch the moon as soon as it rose.  Any later, it would be too bright and too small.  As we hunted through our gear under...