CHURCH AT TRAMPAS

The golden rays of the setting sun wash across the Church of San José de la Gracia in Las Trampas, New Mexico.

On Monday, following dinner in Chimayo, we drove up through Truchas to Las Trampas on the high road from Santa Fe to Taos. When we arrived, clouds blocked the sun, but after a few minutes' wait, the sun broke through, briefly, before dropping below the mountains to the west, and turned mud into gold.

 

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PEONIES AT NIGHT

Here's a shot that needed very little in the way of processing. I cropped it, tweaked the ambience slider a bit, same with the details slider, in Snapseed. Then I played around with framing in Photogene, and it was ready to share.

 

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THE THROWAWAY

Here's a bit of beauty I found on our kitchen counter.

 

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ATTICUS

ATTICUS CATTICUS

(He was born in our attic.)

Wanting to go out and play.

 

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TAOS CHURCH, AGAIN

iPhone4s / PhotoForge 2 / Photogene

Here's another shot of the church featured in yesterday's blog. This one is also from my former daily photo blog, When a Painter Snaps.

Here's what I wrote at the time:

Five days ago, I posted an image of Thea and our friend, Jay Olson, in front of the Church at Ranchos. Admittedly, it was more snapshot than photograph. This is called When a Painter Snaps, after all.

Today, though, I decided to post my latest photograph of this beautiful building that has drawn both artists and photographers ranging from Georgia O'Keeffe to Anselm Adams. As for photographers, it's been shot with 8×10 and 4×5 cameras, 35mm cameras, and everything from pinhole cameras and Kodak Brownies to, as in this case, an iPhone.

Hasta mañana.

 

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