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It's been almost exactly 2 months since my last photo of him, a lot has changed

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2 Years Ago...

I went and got all crazy...

I Love You, Erin

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This is for Me

I love my dad.

He is sick.

I will be taking a photo of him each day I spend with him.

July 12, 2011

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Bad Wilderness

I found these images sitting on my USB drive and remembered I had intended to write a blog post about the trip, so here we go…

I have seen many spectacular images taken at the Bisti Badlands in Northern New Mexico, which has caused me to want to photograph their myself. After all they are only a 3-4 hour drive away from my front door.

Last June, during my sabbatical I asked my dad to accompany me on an overnight trip to do our own exploring of the badlands. Documentation on the Bisti Wilderness is somewhat scarce, it is fairly remote, and has no established buildings or trails. All the roads leading into the area are dirt roads that go through Indian Reservations. We left town in the early afternoon with plans to arrive a few hours before sun down.

When we pulled into the parking area at the wilderness boundary (the Badlands are a BLM established wilderness area) we the only vehicle in sight. We set out on a short hike and it wasn’t long before we found ourselves among some interesting rock formations.

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We headed back to the vehicle after sun dropped below the horizon. I captured one last image before climbing into the Jeep and heading into Farmington for the night. The silence and the stillness in the air was incredibly peaceful and a bit eerie at the same time.



The next morning we woke up early and headed back out into the badlands. I captured only one image I was pleased with that morning; which I posted some time ago over on flickr.

El Malpais Last May...

I've been meaning to post these images for nearly... 8 months now. In the early part of my sabbatical during the summer of 2010 my dad and I took a few day trips to various spots around New Mexico. One of the day trips was to El Malpias National Monument. The national monument contains prehistoric lava flows from several surrounding volcanoes. El Malpais means "bad lands" in Spanish.

This first image is taken from the Sandstone Bluffs. On the left, just past the edge of the bluffs you can see the lava flow several hundred feet below. On the right, on the horizon is Mt. Taylor (named for President Zachary Taylor) which stands at 11,301 ft. in elevation. It has names in at least 9 different languages (Tsoodzil and Kaweshtima are two other names).

This second image shows a close up of one type of lava feature in the Lava Falls area in the McCartys Crater. The lava is primarily basalt and these particular rocks are examples of Xenoliths (I could not find any information on the iridescent colored moss).

I thought the lava looked a lot like the tops of the brownies my mom used to make when we were kids. The lava formations shown here are called pahoehoe (pa-hoy-hoy) which refers to the smoother looking lava. The Lava Falls trail was the only trail we hiked on that day.

I was hoping to make it to some of the lava tubes and caves to do some exploring, but unfortunately we did not. The National Park Service has since closed the lava tubes due to bats developing a fungal disease known as "White-Nose syndrome." They have no plans to re-open the tubes until they determine if the disease was caused naturally or introduced by visitors to the park.