Psychodelic Ranch

Here is an image (actually two images I pasted together in Photoshop) of the Cadillac Ranch.

I did some heavy manipulating on this one.

Still more ranch...

This is a panorama created from two images I took from the porch of cousin Amy's cabin last week.

More Ranch....

Trying to find a different way to present this work of art.

Meanwhile back at the...

Here is a turkey vulture enjoying the sunset at my cousin Amy's cabin on the Pedernales River near Austin. The place is known as "The Ranch." Many ranches in TX.

Meanwhile, back at the...

Sorry to have been gone so long-we were staying at a place in TX with no internet.

I took this at the world famous Cadillac Ranch in Amarillo this morning. There are more to come.

The ranch is a very cool work of art that has been added to by countless graffiti artists over the years. The garbage in the foreground is from someone who was adding to the work as I photographed.

And that's the moon up there in the sky.

kipps loop pond

One way to get around a lower mega-pixel camera is to create "vertical panoramas." I took this picture on Kipps Loop on the other side of the hill here yesterday. It is actually two vertical pictures that I stitched together in Photoshop. So two 7 mp pictures become one 14 mp picture!!

Out the Back Door

This is out our back door this evening. Nice, dramatic sunset, and yes, I took a few Photoshop liberties with it.

Poppies

These poppies are growing in planters outside the front door of our store.

Orange Columbine

Can't think of the name of this columbine and I'm to lazy to go out in the garden and check. I got it at the fancy southwest native plant nursery in NM and I was afraid they wouldn't bloom this season, but at least one has popped out.
They're gonna be really nice next year.

Salida Pics

Took these pictures yesterday on a day trip to Salida. The window was at the bike shop in town and the graveyard was on the south side.

Columbines

Just took this picture this evening on our back porch. The light's been getting nice and yellow in the evening lately.

And Voila

Faithful blogateers should remember part of this picture, an old shot of the entrance to the cemetery in Gallisteo NM. The sky washed out in the original picture and I keep replacing it, this time with the moon set from two nights ago (and my last blog entry), with my trusty Photoshop.

Happy fourth

I stepped outside with the intention of photographing the fireworks at Palmer Lake this evening, and this was the best thing I saw.
The fireworks were okay, the Air Force Academy's looked pretty impressive, but I'm pretty happy with this picture.
I will probably combine it with another picture at some point-something with an interesting foreground but blah sky.

Me Quilter???

People ask me if I quilt, and the answer is, well, no. I have actually done one quilt. This is called Kind of Blue, and it is some of my favorite jazz album covers printed on fabric and thrown together into a quilt. I'm not sure if it's a wall or throw size-it's about 4x6 feet.
I stole the idea from my sister Chris, who had made a similar quilt for my nephew Matt with his favorite (very different) album covers.
Heather helped me with it, but the only thing she did for me was the binding.
I was photographing some quilts today and realized I hadn't done this one.