Desert Tango

Photo Archive Upgrade

admin — Wed, 28 Jul 2010 00:02:56 +0000

While I have been off the radar this summer, I’ve been spending a good deal of time updating and upgrading my photo archive. Part of that process involved an upgrade to my Photoshelter account which now allows me to price and sell all of the images in my online archive. So it is with that I’d [...]

The Whiskey Off-Road for Mountain Flyer Magazine

admin — Fri, 30 Apr 2010 16:08:29 +0000

Last weekend a friend/reporter and I headed to Prescott, Arizona to cover the annual Whiskey Off-Road for Mountain Flyer Magazine. The feature article won’t come out until the next issue of the magazine comes out in June, but I did produce a race report for their website. As of late, I’ve doing a lot of [...]

Dawn Til Dusk Mountain Bike Race

admin — Tue, 27 Apr 2010 23:00:27 +0000

I’ve been photographing a ton of mountain bike racing lately, which is great because I spend a lot of my own personal time logging miles and miles of sweet singletrack here in western New Mexico and beyond. This past race, the Dawn Til Dusk 12 Hour Endurance Race, takes place right here in Gallup. I [...]

One Last Breath of Winter

admin — Mon, 19 Apr 2010 03:12:09 +0000

Now that winter is pretty much over (although I’m sure we’ll get at least one more snow storm here in New Mexico before summer), I recently spent some time reviewing photos from my winter outdoor activities. I came across several images from the dozens of excursions I’ve done this winter and early spring. In terms [...]

24 Hours in the Old Pueblo for Mountain Flyer Magazine

admin — Wed, 07 Apr 2010 22:27:46 +0000

The latest issue of Mountain Flyer Magazine recently came out, which means I can show my coverage of the 24 Hours in the Old Pueblo mountain bike race in Tucson, Ariz. Actually a few of these images appeared in the race report I did for their website in February. For that I cranked out a [...]

Lone Tree at Red Rock State Park

admin — Wed, 24 Mar 2010 20:17:09 +0000

While I don’t consider myself a landscape photographer, I will occasionally go out in search of a something beautiful. Living in the Southwest means that we are surrounded by beauty, but that doesn’t mean it’s easy to make an extraordinary photograph. For me, the thing that sets a quality landscape apart is the light, and [...]

Winter Emergency Relief Efforts at Ramah Navajo

admin — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 22:22:13 +0000

Snow is great if you get to play in it and then head home to a city where all of your needs are a quick jaunt to the store, like I do. But living in a remote area when a big storm hits can make daily life challenging for some, especially on distant parts of [...]

Navajo Wedding

admin — Thu, 25 Feb 2010 06:15:26 +0000

This past holiday season, I was hired to photograph a Navajo wedding by some friends of mine. This was the first time I’ve witnessed a traditional wedding. Brian and Dionne Tandy were married right here in Gallup, New Mexico at a relatives house. What I found interesting was that, while the many of the rituals and [...]

Outdoor Winter Fun in the Southwest

admin — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 00:10:36 +0000

Like the rest of the country, western New Mexico has had it’s share of snow this winter. To a Midwesterner like myself, I can’t say that it rivals the amount we would get living along the western coast of Lake Michigan, but it’s no less fun. In fact, it’s more like an invitation to continue [...]

Hillerman Country for New Mexico Magazine

admin — Mon, 25 Jan 2010 21:40:24 +0000

New Mexico Magazine called me a few months back looking for images to illustrate a story about the works of author Tony Hillerman. Much of Hillerman’s detective novels are set in western New Mexico and deal with crime on the Navajo Nation. While I do not consider myself much of a stock photography shooter, I do [...]