Some other work...

This is the forth in a series of ink on sketch paper drawings I have done in the last couple of weeks. The first three were done to be a trip tick and are not so rectilinear (even though they are done with the same method). Once I have completed the trip tick I will post it to share here. I sometimes do too much I think, but I have fun with things like this and it is a very therapeutic way to wind down the day and relax.

Just Another NM Sunset...

...WOW, the sunsets in New Mexico are rarely just another sunset they are absolutely spectacular. A sunset at GNTO near Belen, NM looking over the Rio Puerco. If they only lasted longer, but after just a few short minutes the sunset is gone.

This was a panorama stitched together by several photographs of the sunset.

Light Waves

Oops! I was trying to photograph the moon as it rose above the mountains, and did not have a tripod with me so the image I took showed parking lot and other lights as streaks. I thought it was pretty cool so I set my camera to a longer exposure and began to move it while the shutter was open creating long streaks and some really fun photographs and patterns.

I love to sketch...

A sketch done at the NM State Forestry Headquarters in Santa Fe, it is an amazing building built by the CCC during the depression and the courtyard is spectacular. This is a sketch done in the same courtyard shown in the panorama photo earlier on this blog.

I take my sketch book with me whenever I am traveling and tend to do a lot of sketches, some are quick and never really finished and some are finished a little while later, I will draw the base quickly and get as much of the large elements and then come in later and add the shadows and darken in windows and doors and such.

I think I like to sketch as much as I like to photograph, it is a very relaxing thing for me and I enjoy looking through my sketchbooks again later.

Da MOON!

I was out at UNM Campus Observatory a couple weeks ago (as usual on Friday's) and took this photo of the moon about a week before full through the eyepiece of my telescope. It is pretty cool, the moon is such an amazing thing to look at and a lot of fun to take pictures of.

What a sunset

I was walking out of Walmart and looked to the west and was absolutely amazed at the color of the sky as the sun was setting. I put up my things and grabbed my camera and took some photos before the color went away, you know sunsets do not last long.

A stitched panoram from several immages of the courtyard at the New Mexico State Forestry Headquarters in Santa Fe, New Mexico. This was a CCC project built during the depression and is an amazing space.

The immage is comprised of about 25 immages that were stitched together using a program called autostitch, it is prety cool and I think works well.