New Photo post

[Dennis S]

For those who may be interested, I have posted 5 new pictures on my Flickr site. Hopefully you can expand them to nearly full screen size.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/dennis_and_barb/

 

[Phyllis]

They are beautiful, Dennis. Are you familiar with Clyde Butcher? He is a Florida photograper who does mainly photos of the Everglades (all in black and white) and has been compared to Ansel Adams. I think you would like his work: http://www.clydebutcher.com/
Dick and I own a couple of his photos and one in particular is called "Moonrise"- a take-off on Adams' "Moonrise" which now goes for close to six figures. I bought Butcher's "Moonrise" for Dick for one of our anniversaries to make up for the Ansel "Moonrise" that we could have bought in the 70's for $700.00 and I refused to buy it because I found it depressing ( a moonrise over a cemetary). LOL

 

[Dennis S]

Thanks

Thanks

I never thought about it, but I guess my pictures won't be getting anybody in trouble since they are just plain free!

 

[StretchL]

Hi, Dennis... nice images there... I especially like Colorado Road, the last "road" the name of which I don't remember, but with that death defying curve coming up, and "On Guard". Thanks for sharing.

 

[Dennis S]

Thanks

Thanks

Stretch-Thanks for looking, and your nice comment. Maybe I will do a little bragging down at Los Ojos. That is the one bar in our little town, but it made Esquire magazine's shortlist of the best bars in the mountain states.

"LOS OJOS
Jemez Springs, New Mexico
You're having: A tequila shot with a beer back.
The best way to get there is from below, like supplicant. You drive up from Albuquerque through the Indian reservation and red rocks to the deep cottonwoods then follow the winding stream up the mountain. If you time it right and the light hits the sheer canyon walls, they turn into majestic golden ships sailing straight for the center of the sky, and you realize something you must have always known: This is why people think the desert is a sacred place.

Then you get to Jemez Springs, a town so small, it doesn't even have a stoplight—but it doe have one Buddhist monastery, one nunnery run by the Handmaids of the Precious blood, one hot-springs restorative mineral-water bathhouse, and one former dry-out center for wayward priests.

Across the street from the old dry-out center in every sense—physically, spiritually, and metaphorically—is Los Ojos. The building is faded adobe, and inside there's a long wooden bar and barstools that are logs carved with a chain saw. It doesn't take long, sitting there. You have one shot of tequila and talk to the scientist from Los Alamos, have another and say hello to the outlaw biker, a third and listen to the priest brag about all the times he drove home from church smoking a joint and cranking Le Zeppelin. As you continue to fortify yourself, you develop a theory about monasteries and bars, the necessary balance between the right side of the road and the left. Then you remember the punch line to the classic joke about what the Buddhist told the hotdog vendor—"Make me one with everything"—and that reminds you of something else you must have always known: God is in the tequila."

I hardly drink at all, but it is a great place. Much tamer than it used to be, but still a great place for a little bragging. The locals can show you the old bullet holes, but we haven't done any of that in the last 10 years.

 

[cjwinthesun]

Great picture set

Great picture set

Some lovely pictures - many congratulations. Living in a desert I had forgotten how beautiful autumn leaves look! (We have plenty of date palms!)

regards