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New Mexico Art League’s Black and White Show

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Black and White: An Exhibition of Drawings and Photographs

The show will be exhibited from April 17th through May 26, 2018 at the New Mexico Art League gallery, 10 am-4pm, Tuesday through Saturday.

The image featured above, Taos Country, was chosen to be in this show. It’s the same one that garnered an honorable mention in the New Mexico Magazine’s annual photo contest in 2017.

I made this triptych for my friend Charlie who lived here while he worked at what was then the Southwest Regional Office of the National Park Service in Santa Fe. He moved on to other positions in other locations but always loved this area and wished he could return. Alas, it was not to be. 

The image on the left is the Rio Grande gorge as seen from the road to Taos, an iconic image. The middle is Taos Pueblo North. I am especially fond of this image because, unlike most that emphasize the towering massiveness of the Pueblo, it is put in the proper (to my mind) context of the land and sky. The image to the right was taken while camping at Wild Rivers Recreation Area near Questa, NM. Here the Rio Grande and Red Rivers converge at the bottom of an 800 foot canyon. This image is looking north, up the Rio Grande. Putting them together in one frame would, I hope, give my friend and anyone else looking at it a taste of this magnificent land.

 

 

 

 

Annual New Mexico Photographic Art Show

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Each year hundreds of photographers submit thousands of photographs to the Annual New Mexico Photographic Art Show (ANMPAS) which showcases the finest photographic work being done in New Mexico. A jury of professionals selects only the best photography from Santa Fe, Taos, Albuquerque, and elsewhere in New Mexico for inclusion in the annual show.

I read that somewhere and saved it for an occasion like this. I probably would not have been so extravagantly boastful. I’ve known about ANMPAS for about 8 years now, since I began to show my work but have managed to submit entries only half those years. Traveling in the RV during the winter I either forgot or didn’t have the right images with me.  When I did submit I usually got at least one entry juried into the show. This year I was determined to not let the deadline slip by and got a couple of images accepted:

Yellowstone Magic

YELLOWSTONE MAGIC     The hot springs and pools at Yellowstone National Park provide           endless variations of color and abstraction.

Bunker Hill

BUNKER HILL                                 Not Boston’s, LA’s!

Here are images accepted in previous ANMPAS shows , 2011-2013.

Great Sand Dunes NP
The ruins of the original church of San Geronimo are reminders of that brutal deed.
Near Garfield, NM, the springtime flood irrigation of the groves promises pecans.
Bundles
Jin Mao, Shanghai

 

The show runs from April 1 through April 23 and the Fine Art Gallery at EXPO New Mexico will be open  from 10 am to 5 pm. Opening reception is Sat., March 31st from 2-4 pm.

More Categories for Portfolio Images

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Introduction

This post is a continuation of possible themes/categories of images I might include when I make a portfolio web site out of this primarily blog site. Once again, it is for my benefit, a place where I have recorded titles of images that could speak to a particular theme or idea.

A. Panorama/Triptych

  1. Abandoned
  2. Cerrillos Hills, winter
  3. Cerrillos Hills, summer
  4. Dallas Divide
  5. Estuary II
  6. Font’s Point
  7. Glacier Text
  8. Gorge
  9. O’Keeffe Country
  10. Mills Canyon
  11. Into the Rain
  12. Near Manzanar
  13.  Harvest

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    Harvest

  14. Ojo Cottonwoods
  15. Salt River
  16. Taos Doors
  17. Tuolumne River
  18. White Sands
  19. Unicorn
  20. Soon Pecans
  21. Hot Fudge Sundae with Butterscotch Ice Cream
  22. Ubehebe Crater
  23. Chianti Vineyard
  24. Volterra
  25. Crete Senese
  26. San Antimo
  27. San Juan Mountains
  28. Yellowstone Magic

B. Badlands

  1.  Sky Dance
  2. Zabriskie Point
  3. Sky King
  4. Ramparts to the Castle
  5. This One’s for Your, Judy!
  6. Font’s Point

    Fonts Point

    Font’s Point-Anza Borrego Desert State Park, CA

  7. Anza Badlands
  8. (Relatively) Slender People Only (aka Anza Slot II)
  9. Elephant Feet
  10. Eat Your Heart Out, Henry Moore
  11. Pebble Place 1
  12. Peeble Place 3
  13. Golden Canyon
  14. Golden Canyon Exit
  15. Carizzo Badlands
  16. Dante’s View
  17. Zabriskie Point
  18. Hot Fudge Sundae with Butterscotch Ice Cream
  19. Bisti to Heaven
  20. Bisti Wings

C. Sequences

  1. LA Quad
  2. Bunker Hill
  3. Made in LA
  4. Waves

    Waves

    Waves

  5. Waves II
  6. Slots
  7. At the Shore BW
  8. At The Shore C
  9. Sand Patterns

D. The Crown Jewels: Western National Parks*

Yellowstone

  1. Yellowstone Magic
  2. Mammoth Springs I
  3. Mammoth Springs II
  4. Mammoth Springs III
  5. Grand Canyon of the Yellowstone
  6. Denizens of Yellowstone
  7. Pool

Yosemite

  1. Pot Hole Pine
  2. Tuolumne River
  3. Near Manzanar
  4. Chessboard
  5. Another
  6. Bent
  7. Fifty Years After Ansel

Grand Teton

Teton Mists

Teton Mists

  1. Gros Ventre
  2. Across the Water
  3. Teton Sunrise
  4. Later that Morning
  5. Teton Mists

Death Valley

  1. Zabriskie Point Sunset
  2. Dante’s View
  3. Sky King
  4. Sky Dance
  5. Zabriskie Point Pan
  6.  Zabriskie Detail
  7. Ubehebe  Crater Pan
  8.  Ubehebe Crater Detail
  9. Golden Canyon
  10. Golden Canyon Exit

* Some of these images will be on display at the Vista Grande Public Library during the month of September, 2017.