Happy birthday, New Mexico!

Good night, everyone and everything!

Photos: A Trip to the Zoo

I spent the afternoon at the ABQ Biopark on Sunday. It was a beautiful day to do it. We had something of a heat wave with 50F and it was sunny. To top it off, it was half price day. How could we go wrong?

You can see all 35 photos by clicking on the gorilla portrait or by clicking on this URL: http://bit.ly/VSY4rt

Ready for the holidays!

Chaco am ready for the holidays!

Photos: Bat Masterson at The Legal Tender

Thadd Turner (in the top hat), playing Bat Masterson. The other actors are the robbers he brought down in the re-enactment, after he gave them a chance to rob the patrons – all for a good cause, of course.

Thought I’d try something a bit different and create a gallery in sepia. I admit part of it was laziness in making all the adjustments to hue and exposure, with the bad lighting at The Legal Tender but they came out pretty well.

You can click through on the photo or here to see the rest of the photos.

VOSTCat says….

“ENOUGH of this! Time for a break!”

Shootout at the NM Corral

…and the fun never ends at The Legal Tender in Lamy, NM. When we last left our indefatigable heroes, they were debuting a Clay Walker video in the dance hall, to the delight of the regular Thursday crowd (and a few others, I’m sure).

This week, Thadd organized a reenactment of the Shootout at the OK Corral, out in front of the restaurant. Please excuse the mini van in the background; the transformer building; and the Southwest Chief Amtrak line that appears in the background of some the stills. It was still a superb performance, by actors with heart! We may yet manage to edit the video to a more polished version but we decided sharing sooner was the social and neighborly thing to do.

You can see the rest of the stills by visiting The Red Elm on Google Plus here: OK Corral Reenactment.

Here’s the raw version of the shootout:

This work by Mar Reddy-Hjelmfelt is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported License.

Photos: San Juan Rx Burn 20121017 #Eldorado #nmfire #nmwx

Smoky Sunset in Eldorado

Smoky Night in Eldorado

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Behind the Glass – An Intro to Lenses #photography

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