Brian's Photos

A quick over nighter and hike at the Ghost Ranch North of Abiquiu, New Mexico. See more from the trip here: GH Gallery

Just a quick Ojito Wilderness hike at the mountain bike area. See www.ojito.org for more information. See more of the Ojito in my gallery here: Ojito Gallery

A Saturday visit to the one of the Salinas Pueblo Mission – Quarai Pueblo Mission.  See the complete gallery here: Salinas Gallery

We jumped on the Sandia Mountain Tram, rode to the top and did a short hike on the north trail on the Peak. Small gallery here: Sandia Gallery

We took a trip to the San Stone Bluffs South of Grants, NM and overlooking the El Malpais. Read more about the El Malpais here: National Park Service – El Malpais

See more of the Sandstone Bluffs here: Sandstone Gallery

One of my favorite photos from hiking a round trip 4 plus mile hike into El Dorado Canyon near Boulder Colorado. Small gallery here (Gallery). I’m adding more every week to the El Dorado hike.

Took a drive to the base of the Mountains in Albuquerqe to grab some night shots and got lucky with the lighting in this shot. No gallery but you can visit my Flickr site here: Flickr.Com

This photo was featured and picked as the photo of the week on Msnbc.com. Prints are available here: Redbubble

See the full Ghost Ranch Gallery here: Ghost Ranch

See more of my photos at: Flickr.com

This is pretty amazing stuff.  I’ve only started really taking serious pictures about a year ago. This is my first recongnition of any type. Trying to soak it up.

Alot of folks are asking “how’d you do it?”. The Chimney rock is located just next door to the Ghost Ranch. First you need to do a good hour plus hike up to the top of the mesa and  hope for good sun.  The hike isn’t easy but the views are so worth it.  Visit the Ghost Ranch online:  GhostRanch.Org. I used a Nikon D90 with a very reasonably priced WIDE Tokina 12-24mm lens. They run about 399 dollars and for the most part have great reviews. You can find them used for 300. Setup on a tripod, I always use apreture priority or P setting and then do a three shot bracket or bracketing shot with a plus and minus 2 exposure comp. I then blend the photos in Photoshop or Photomatix for a High Dynamic Range photo. I usually keep my HDR’s pretty mellow. The single correctly exposed shot (from the bracking group) looks VERY similar to this shot. However I use the HDR because it brings out the contrast in the clouds that my eyes see naturally.

HDR How to using Photoshop: Click Here

Thanks to all for your comments, etc.

We did a recent trip to Mesa Verde, Co. These are photos from the second day and a visit to the Balcony House. See more of the tour here: Balcony House Gallery

The photo to the left is an example of an over the top HDR. But I liked it and felt it was a bit different than all the other millions of photos taken at MV.

A collection of photos from a recent trip to Monument Valley in Arizona. Two visits into the park, one at night and one early at 6am the next morning.  See the full Gallery here:  Monument Valley Gallery