El Rancho de los Golondrinas harvest festival is one of the best in the nation. USA Today says the they are number two. I don’t know if that matters, but it sure is a lot of fun. You can eat, make food products like cider and watch the entertainment.
Going there made a good day trip from Albuquerque since it is located just a bit south of Santa Fe.
I made a lot of different kinds of pictures there, but this one was the most loved. It ran as an ad for the New Mexico tourism folks. It ran as an advertisement for the gallery of which I was a part. It also is a part of many people’s private collections.
Of course, I like it when a picture is licensed as part of an advertising campaign, but, it’s humbling when it hangs on somebody’s wall. They liked enough to want to live with it.
Whenever I made a day trip like this I included the work in my PAD project. It made that day’s looking a little easier. Over the course of a year sometimes easier was better.
It means you worried more about making the pictures rather than worry about the logistics of looking for the pictures.
Isn’t that what we want? Pictures.
I feel like I’m not helping you at all.
This is the classic F8 and be there picture.
I worked my way around to the back of the stage which wasn’t hard because backstage was just a dusty plot of land and nothing else.
I photographed until I was done. A couple of other photographers saw what I was doing and joined me. There was no competition at all.
Post production was minimal and the final picture was as you see it.
It’s getting boring around here, yes?
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