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Very well done HDR. It doesn't have that flat sort of pastel look common to many HDR images. Excellent job.

Only in NM! It probably replaces a steer's skull--the other outhouse decor. I'm impressed that the tin roof didn't turn into a blown-out highlight. Good job at exposure and good job at capturing the humor.

I've been learning my way around my new Canon G9. Part of that

learning is the use of close-up lenses for macro work. I ran across

this seed pod on a dead plant and thought it made a good subject to

learn on. This was my second shot with the G9 and a +2 close-up lens.

Seed pods in a trumpet vine growing in our back yard. The pods are

quite large and take on interesting shapes after they've served their

pupose.

The mask was lying on the street near my home. It's position within

the dirt tracks on the asphalt made for an interesting composition.

Someone defaced this stone in the Petroglyph National Monument.

Nonetheless it is a compelling image in its setting. I have found it

very challanging to photograph. It's on the side of a rocky outcrop

that enjoys few places for composition. And it must be photographed

late in the afternoon or the etching in the stone is almost invisble.

It has become a personal challange/project to try and extract a

decent photograph from this. This is one of hundreds of photographs

I've made of this so far. That it is somewhat close to my home makes

the challange somewhat less daunting.

An old tourist shop in Algedones NM. Its artwork and paint have since

been replaced with dull grey stucco.

Nicely done. Not using a telephoto lens has made a more intimate photograph. The lack of distance between you and your subjects makes you a part of their event.

Minor White said something to the effect that all photographers

photograph a mountain. Each photographer likes that photograph so

much that they spend the rest of their careers trying to duplicate the

success of that photograph. This is my "mountain photograph".

 

It was made on the bosque bordering the Rio Grande during a rare foggy

morning. The fog was lifting rapidly when I came across this scene.

 

Your comments and criticism are most welcome. Thanks.

Another photograph of a nearby yucca plant. I've been really taken by

the potential of this plant when photographed with a macro lens.

A photograph I made of a yucca plant near my home.