New Mexico Light and Scenes
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ittle pictures. Details. Something to show the texture of a place. You’d think they would be the easiest to find and see.
They aren’t.
Usually, you see them on the way back from whatever caught your eye in the first place. In a design piece they are often called point pictures which is the opposite of a hero picture. Alone, these pictures can’t carry the page. But, together they have some power.
Sounds like human beings doesn’t it. It takes a village. There is no I in team. Stuff like that. That’s why The U.S Army’s old advertising campaign of a team of one, never worked. There are no teams of one. And, before I forget, Happy 246th Birthday U.S. Army.
I’ve given some thought to another approach to using little pictures. What if I compiled a collection of these and printed them huge and turned them into a kind of art statement?
I’m starting to do the ground work to some new projects. Maybe this could be a component in one of them.
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here really is no secret technique to making these photographs.
The key is to not edit yourself in the field. See it, shoot it. Don’t think about it.
Try your best to keep pictures like these clean.
This is no time for fancy post production and modifications.
You might want to work on these at their biggest magnification. There is no telling what’s hiding in the background.
STORYTELLER 
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