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by Mark Bohrer | Nov 9, 2018 | Ancestral Puebloan, Landscape photography, National Monument, Petroglyphs, Photo tour |
Time to meet 5,000+ petroglyphs and stark mountain landscapes. Mesa Prieta is usually deserted, and touched by decent morning light (sometimes spectacular). So how do you get ready? Beyond revisiting the route to the location, my pre-shoot thoughts go something like...
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by Mark Bohrer | Mar 22, 2018 | How to shoot, Landscape photography, Leica, New Mexico, Petroglyphs, Shot Design, Sigma, Travel, ultra-wide-angle, Zeiss |
Go close. Or put it this way: “If your pictures aren’t good enough, you’re not close enough.” Clan mask, Piedras Marcadas, Petroglyph National Monument Leica M10, 35mm f/1.2 Nokton Aspherical VM II That was Magnum photographer Robert...
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by activelight | May 18, 2017 | Landscape photography, New Mexico, Petroglyphs, Travel |
The outdoors has a lot to offer in New Mexico, from striking million-year-old cinder cones to prehistoric 4-story buildings to snow-capped mountain peaks. So when California friends came to visit us, we decided to show them the sculpted slot canyons of Kasha-Katuwe...
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by activelight | Apr 27, 2017 | How to shoot, Landscape photography, National Monument, New Mexico, Petroglyphs, photo workshop, Shot Design, telephoto, Wildlife |
Want to find out where the petroglyphs are? Use this easy form to contact me for a workshop or full-blown photo tour. Bring the Big One On my last photo workshop to Petroglyph National Monument in March, we’d seen rock squirrels, jack rabbits and canyon wrens....
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by activelight | Feb 15, 2017 | How to shoot, Landscape photography, New Mexico, Petroglyphs |
Albuquerque sunrise from Mesa Prieta, Petroglyph National Monument I’m a Night Owl But… Too many years of 3- and 4-set nights playing keyboards in nightclubs turned me into a night person. So I grumbled when the alarm went off at 0-dark-thirty, but...
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by activelight | Nov 17, 2016 | Landscape photography, National Monument, New Mexico, Petroglyphs |
I wanted to scoop more shots at Petroglyph National Monument’s lonely Mesa Prieta, at the knife-edge of a 17-mile rockfall with 20,000-plus petroglyphs. But I arrived later than I’d planned for late afternoon shooting. The Trouble With Sunsets If you...
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