Editing Progress... Day 7 of 11

MORE PHOTOS NOW ONLINE

As the gallery is now above 900 images I would suggest that, if you have been following along, you skip to the end and work through backwards.

I have added another 40ish images. Days one - seven are now edited and online, in the order they were captured (or close to it). This represents photographs from December 5th - 11th of my trip.

Day seven started waiting for White Sands national Monument to open. The night before we were told that we could get into the park at 7am; but due to some missile testing the opening was delayed until 9am. With the delay I decided to head out to the country side to try and see some of the local Oryx that reside in the area. I only had a brief, very distant, sighting. I did see dozens of Red Tail Hawks and captured some nice Gambel's Quail photographs. I was then off to a reserve near Roswell, Bitter Lake. I added many birds to my trip list; but only a few provided nice photographs. The last hour and a half of the day did provide three different owl species (Great Horned, Short Eared, and Burrowing).

I hope you enjoy.

Editing Progress... Day 6 of 11

MORE PHOTOS NOW ONLINE

As the gallery is now above 900 images I would suggest that, if you have been following along, you skip to the end and work through backwards.

I have added another 140ish images. Days one - six are now edited and online, in the order they were captured (or close to it). This represents photographs from December 5th - 10th of my trip.

Day six started shooting sunrise in Bosque then I took a drive down to White Sands National Monument. The afternoon was spend scouting and shooting a little. When I went to shoot my sunset scene so other photographers spotted me and while trying to see what I getting ready to shoot they walked into the scene ruining it... Oh well... I had a few ideas for backup scenes and had some fun shooting after sunset landscapes (some painting with light too). I camped on the shores of a lake that I pray nothing tries to drink out of as it just felt like it was nuclear :)

I hope you enjoy.

White Sands, Day 6

The two and a half hour drive to White Sand National Monument is well worth it when you are in the area. A drive then a few landscapes after shooting sunrise in Bosque del Apache. Just so people know the Oryx have bee removed from White Sands about 5 years ago. If you have connections, I don't, you may be able to et onto the missile range and photograph them; but that is very unlikely.

Days before my arrival here was 60+ mph winds in the area so things were a little different than usual.

For now I'll let the photos finish the talking.