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Vacation to New Mexico - White Sands (4 pix)

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You are welcome! I have many memories recorded on 35mm slides that I hope to digitize someday !

We didn't buy anything at the visitor center, but I think they still have T-shirts with Kokopelli! The mug has probably lasted longer than the shirt.

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Lois Ann
E-1, E-330, 14-54mm, 11-22mm, 50-200mm, EC14; SP500UZ, MCON 40
Used to have: C-765UZ, TCON 17
Photography: 'Freezing photons for the future.' or 'Capturing a story in light.'
 
Thanks, Digirame. The E-1 is a fantastic camera, but it also helps to have blue skies! Imagine these scenes with Pacific NW gray skies - they would not have been as nice.

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Lois Ann
E-1, E-330, 14-54mm, 11-22mm, 50-200mm, EC14; SP500UZ, MCON 40
Used to have: C-765UZ, TCON 17
Photography: 'Freezing photons for the future.' or 'Capturing a story in light.'
 
Lois Ann said:
Finally, I have processed the photos from our trip to see grandson,
daughter and son-in-law in May! They live in El Paso, but most of our
travels were in New Mexico. First stop White Sands National Monument.
The dunes are gypsum, not sand. There is a paved road into the dunes
which is plowed daily because of the wind blowing the gypsum. We
drove out into the dunes to find a steep spot for "sledding".
All taken with E-1 and 14-54.
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that is very interesting, I´ve heard about White Sands before but I never knew it was gypsum!

Must be a different kind of stuff than what we call Gips, can´t imagine this here would harden or set after a rain shower, lol! (But maybe it just never rains down there?!)

All very good; the ones I like best is "Grandson in the sand" and the first one from the second post, the view from the top of the hill. That white looks almost surreal, reminds me on IR photography. Very good! And very good looking contrast to the blue sky in the grandson in the sand shot!





Before I forget, thanks Lois for looking at my church pics in Sharon´s thread, nice you like them!

René

Strange, same problem as yesterday, I can click on Preview, works, but then I can´t click on "Edit" after preview, always leads me to an empty to be edited post in news discussion.

After preview I now have to use the browser back button to come back to the page where I can edit my post, not that edit button under the post. Wondering if it got something to do with the latest update of NoScript.

Even worse today, when I click on "Post" now after "Preview", it tells me "page not found", even after I have turned off NoScript.

Last attempt now will be to click on "Post" right after this here, without "Preview" first, think that way it worked last night, we´ll see.
 
Looks like you captured some nice memories there. I've always wanted to shoot sand dunes, but haven't had the opportunity yet... By the way, most of these look like 1/3 of a stop (some a bit more) underexposed to me. Perhaps brighten them up a bit and see if you like it.
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Marc
 
Thanks, Rene. I'm glad you liked them. I haven't ever had the problem you described after your signature. I know that sometimes after I post, I want to Edit and the button isn't there. Sometimes it doesn't show up for a few minutes, but I've never had the "page not found" error.

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Lois Ann
E-1, E-330, 14-54mm, 11-22mm, 50-200mm, EC14; SP500UZ, MCON 40
Used to have: C-765UZ, TCON 17
Photography: 'Freezing photons for the future.' or 'Capturing a story in light.'
 
Thanks for looking, Roel, and I'm happy you liked them.
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Lois Ann
E-1, E-330, 14-54mm, 11-22mm, 50-200mm, EC14; SP500UZ, MCON 40
Used to have: C-765UZ, TCON 17
Photography: 'Freezing photons for the future.' or 'Capturing a story in light.'
 
You are right, Judy, the gypsum does not get hot. It is soft and cool, almost silky feeling on your feet. Hard to climb up a hill also, as you keep slipping back. It would make a nice trip for you.

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Lois Ann
E-1, E-330, 14-54mm, 11-22mm, 50-200mm, EC14; SP500UZ, MCON 40
Used to have: C-765UZ, TCON 17
Photography: 'Freezing photons for the future.' or 'Capturing a story in light.'
 
You are right about them all being 1/3 stop underexposed. I worked on these with shadow/highlight, plus levels and curves, and eventually decided to leave them a little underexposed so the sky was nice and blue and you could see detail in the "sand". One problem is that my grandson had dark clothing on, and if I made him lighter, the white sand was overexposed. I'm just happy they turned out as well as they did, I was worried about the extreme in contrast.

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Lois Ann
E-1, E-330, 14-54mm, 11-22mm, 50-200mm, EC14; SP500UZ, MCON 40
Used to have: C-765UZ, TCON 17
Photography: 'Freezing photons for the future.' or 'Capturing a story in light.'
 
It sounds like you had a mighty nice vacation trip with your family, and I enjoyed your series at White Sands. I’ve photographed there before and found that it’s not as easy as it looks to organize good compositions. You did well, and I especially liked the one with your husband and grandson. The pano is nice too.

A few years ago, when the National HOG Rally was in Albuquerque, I led a big ride into the sands. About half the riders stopped when we got to the sand in the road, afraid they would fall down. The rest of us continued on into the park. I ended up getting a pretty nice photo of my Harley at the base of one of the big dunes. I always carried a Contax p&s with me on the bike.

I’m looking forward to seeing the rest of your vacation.

--John C.
http://www.pbase.com/johnchandler
 
Thanks, John. Interesting story about the bikers, did the riders who stopped eventually venture out after the rest of you?
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Lois Ann
E-1, E-330, 14-54mm, 11-22mm, 50-200mm, EC14; SP500UZ, MCON 40
Used to have: C-765UZ, TCON 17
Photography: 'Freezing photons for the future.' or 'Capturing a story in light.'
 
I can't believe I was really surprised to see that the sand is white -- I never really gave it a thought before. It looks like snow!! I bet that was a challenge to photograph. If you put the settings I must have missed them -- I'll go back and look again.

The photos of your grandson in the sand and the one of grandpa and grandson together are my favorites compositions, though I have to say the second in the series, showing just the white sand was the surprising one -- duhhhh, Susan, that's why they call the place White Sands!! :-)

Nice work -- and as Abid said, better late than never. I'm glad you posted these.

Susan
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http://www.pbase.com/susan_1016
 
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