New mexico
1957 creative works found
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Desert plant life has appealed to me for a long time. The different varieties of cactus, agave and yucca all have such interesting and unique shapes and are some of my favorites to paint. I found this agave near Old Town in Albuquerque. I recently sold 2 canvas prints of this image to a Redbubble mystery buyer – thank you!
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This is an original acrylic painting of the bright pink bloom of a hedgehog cactus. I had a cactus like this at one time and it would bloom vibrantly once each summer. .
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From the pueblos of Taos, New Mexico 12mm, F/7.1, 1/500 sec., ISO-100 / Hoya Polarizing Filter
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Hippie Van in New Mexico 12mm, F/5 1/250 sec. ISO- 100 / Hoya Polarizing Filter
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Built around 1815 this church in the hills of Chimayo, New Mexico, is considered a masterpiece of colonial folk art and architecture and has been deemed a National Historic Landmark. Famed for its miraculous cross and the healing powers of the soil, the Prayer Room is filled with candles, cards & crude hand made shrines as well as crutches and braces testifying to miracles. Directly across the road they sell the best chili powder money can buy. /
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Portrait of Georgia O’Keeffe. Oil on Canvas / American Artist. Georgia O’Keeffe was raised in Wisconsin, educated in Chicago and Virginia, taught, painted, and lived on the east coast until her early sixties when she moved to Abiquiu, & Santa Fe, New Mexico. Close to one hundred when she died in 1986, living alone and painting in scenery that inspired her famous flowers in closeup with strong sexuality, voluptuous lilies and poppies, stark desert landscapes and animal skeletons. She worked in charcoal, water color, and finally oils, and worked large. I’m not sure her story is known well outside the states. She was photographed, courted, and married (1924) by famed 1920’s photographer Alfred Stieglitz who adored her, left his wife and family for her, and made her more famous than he was. She too, was madly in love with him. His black and white photographs of O’Keeffe filled Stieglitz’s famed “291” gallery in New York and caused a sensation with portraits focused on her beautiful bone structure and striking looks, and spectacular nudity. He took over 300 portraits of her from 1918 to 1937. Stieglitz may have been in love, but smart enough of a businessman to cause O’Keeffe’s work to skyrocket in price, averaging $100,000 a painting, monumental for a living artist and a woman in that time. What he did for her career lasted, interest waned some but revived and her work is priceless now. Every girl painter can use a Stieglitz, few get one. Stieglitz died in 1946 and she moved permanently to New Mexico three years later after cataloguing his work and papers. She was 59, began a new life in a landscape she claimed as her own. “God said I may have that mountain,” she’d written, “if I paint it enough.” So she did. / I painted this from one of Alfred Stieglitz’s famous photographs of Georgia O’Keeffe. / When you do portraits, you start to hear conversations from that time, get a sense of the thinking of the subject, smells and impressions wander through you or assault you inescapably. It’s a fascinating and somewhat dangerous occupation because when you put down the brush and turn away you wonder where the hell you’ve been and question your sanity. I’ve come to accept it as just what happens and there it is. One cannot help but see Stieglitz’s fascination with O’Keeffe’s profound physical symmetry. It bothered me. I thought it annoyed Georgia, too, that he was making more of it than in truth was there. Certainly a thoughtfully bright, introspective & solid woman. But he did not capture the O’Keeffe who stood in the desert in thunderstorms alone in the middle of the night to draw the electricity in the air into her being, which she was notorious for doing. Or the O’Keeffe who lived alone on her Ghost Ranch, and drove in her Model A Ford recklessly to plateaus and mountains of New Mexico to soak in the wilderness. DH Lawrence, Ansel Adams, the Lindberghs were visitors. / It’s not the last portrait I’ll do of her, but I wanted to see more in her than Stieglitz’s precision, no matter how beautiful that is to see. / I think he was incredibly kind and thoughtful about this woman’s life, and helped her reach a financial independence undreamt of for an artist of her time and sex. Stieglitz said of the first drawings of Georgia O’Keeffe that he saw: “Finally, a woman on paper!” He admired her, and he loved her. I can’t blame him for thinking her perfect. I’m just not so sure he saw the savage in Georgia. Other US photographers who did some earlier radical work in b/w, nature, and nudes you might want to visit: Ansel Adams. Brett, Edward, and Cole Weston. Edna St Vincent Millay wrote: “My candle burns at both ends; / It will not last the night; / But ah, my foes, and oh, my friends— / It gives a lovely light!” / Which, published in 1918 became an anthem to end constraints on overwatched Victorian girls. A wild, free life… edged with death. / The Hawks Perch
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Storm clouds on flight Oklahoma City to Albuquerque, New Mexico – September 2007. Featured in Color And Light group, RedBubble, May 2009 / /
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Image by photographer Glennis Siverson, www.glennisphotos.com. Reflection of St. Catherine’s Cathedral in Santa Fe, New Mexico.
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Attributes of Turtle: Self contained, protection, and creative source. Turtle represents Mother Earth, informed decisions, planning and adaptability…can awaken the senses on both the physical and spiritual level. Perceiving, inner knowledge. As you can see, Turtle represents powerful medicine.
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Kokopelli, the seed bringer and water-sprinkler(a reference to his male anatomy), is a common fertility symbol throughout the Southwest. His image is found in petroglyph art particularly in the fourcorners area and along the gorges of the San Juan River in Northern New Mexico and Colorado. He is a personage who is honored as a kachina by most Pueblo cultures. He is associated with fertility, the male principal and physiology, and the concept of the significance of protecting seeds. Usually depicted as old, bent under his heavy load, he visits various communities, impregnating the young women drawn to the tones of his flute playing. He is also related to the cricket, or locust, whose natural music is connected with specific humidity and seasonal temperatures. There are many, very ribald stories of his various exploits. When carved as a kachina doll, he usually has a staff, not a flute, but is also carved hunchbacked. Before the missionaries came to the Hopi mesas in the 1930’s, his kachina disguise and this doll also featured exaggerated male sexual organs although this practice has been curtailed in recent years. Today, he is considered the ambassador of the Southwest, a much less colorful job, by tourists and visitors.
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Atsá (Diné [Navajo] word for eagle). Eagle, the master of the sky, is considered a carrier of prayers. Many Indian Nations honor this bird as possessing courage, wisdom, and a special connection to the creator. This is often confused with the “thunderbird” image concept. Eagle is also a Directional Protector(the Sky) spirit, and an image associated with spirits and visions. / My depiction represents three Bald Eagles circling about the Sun, here symbolized by the sacred Zia (Zia Pueblo word for ‘Sun’). Its rays marking the four directions; in the year, with its four seasons; in the day, with the sunrise, noon, evening, and night; in life, with its four divisions—childhood, youth, manhood, and old age. Everything is bound together in a circle of life and love, without beginning, without end.
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Zia Keresean (language of the Zia Pueblo [and other Keres pueblos] in New Mexico) for Sun. New Mexico’s distinctive insignia is the Zia (Sun) Symbol, which originated with the Indians of Zia Pueblo (north central New Mexico) in ancient times. Its design reflects their tribal philosophy, with its wealth of pantheistic spiritualism teaching the basic harmony of all things in the universe. Four is the sacred number of Zia, and the figure is composed of a circle from which four points radiate. These points made up of four straight lines of varying length personify the number most often used by the Giver of all good gifts. To the Zia Indian, the sacred number is embodied in the earth, with its four directions; in the year, with its four seasons; in the day, with the sunrise, noon, evening, and night; in life, with its four divisions—childhood, youth, manhood, and old age. Everything is bound together in a circle of life and love, without beginning, without end. The Zia believe, too, that in this great brotherhood of all things, man has four sacred obligations: he must develop a strong body, a clear mind, a pure spirit, and a devotion to the welfare of his people. This is the symbol which adorns the flag of New Mexico.
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New Mexico, September 2008 Itr was very difficult to decide which one to post, the colour or the black and white – i’ve opted for this one but may change my mind later!
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“Horses speak to the soul of Man in a language that requires no translation” / ~ Skye Ryan-Evans © ~ Featuring historic elements symbolizing the Spanish arrival in the Americas, the Carrack Pinto sailed to The New World by Christopher Columbus, old manuscripts referencing Queen Isabella of Spain, Hernando Cortez and the Warrior Horses brought by the Spaniards who first invaded and explored the Americas in the 15th and 16th centuries. The Alamo built in 1718 represents Texas and the Mexican Padres who bred the rare and pure-blood horses that descended directly from the earliest Spanish arrivals. “This amazing bloodline is also often referred to as American Barb, or sometimes SABAS, an acronym from the breeds that made up the line in Spain before hoof set to ground in the New World, representing: “Spanish, Arabian, Barb, Andalusian, Sorrai”“ Quoted from Texas-based / American Barb breeder. / Callie Heacock. 50% from all funds raised, benefit the caring Wiindcross Conservancy as they strive to protect America’s pure-blood Sorraia horses. Thank you for helping me to help them. ~ Skye
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The adobe-walled courtyard with street access is typical of southwestern U.S. architecture. Doors are often painted in bright colors and it is not unusual to see adornments of skulls, horns, or fanciful handmade ornaments representing desert flora or fauna. In this case, we have a set of horns and a tin lamp shade that has been decorated with a punched design depicting a quarter moon. The sunset is a transplant from another photo. This courtyard and door can be found in Pena Blanca, New Mexico, on state highway 22. The photo is an HDR merge performed in PSP XII. Taken with a Pentax K20D.
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Chaco Canyon, Largo Canyon, Cedar Mesa, Mesa Verde, Ute Mountain, Canyon de Chelly, Monument Valley … / The enchanted canyons and mesas provide a unique experience in the Land of the Navajo and Ute. Their beauty is unsurpassed in southwestern landscapes … / / / Laminated Print /
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Selfportrait, 2006 (to Oahu with love) Warning Sign, Coldplay “A warning sign, / I missed the good part then I realized, / I started looking and the bubble burst. / I started looking for excuses. Come on in, / I’ve gotta tell you what a state I’m in, / I’ve gotta tell you in my loudest tones, / That I started looking for a warning sign. When the truth is, / I miss you. / Yeah the truth is, / That I miss you so. A warning sign, / You came back to haunt me and I realized / you were an island and I passed you by, / You were an island to discover. Come on in, / I’ve gotta tell you what state I’m in, / I’ve gotta tell you in my loudest tones, / That I started looking for a warning sign. When the truth is, / I miss you. / Yeah the truth is, / That I miss you so. And I’m tired, / I should not have let you go. So I crawl back into your open arms. / Yes, I crawl back into your open arms. / And I crawl back into your open arms. / Yes, I crawl back into your open arms…”
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This song fits the piece please listen, please / Commanche at Indian Nation Festival in full warrior dress and war paint. I love that these people embrace the Earth and live for a celebration amongst friends and family Albuquerque New Mexico along Route 66 Shot with the SONY a200 f5.6 ALSO AVAILABLE THUNDER WALKER / / WINNER OF THE SHOW US YOUR STUFF CHALLENGE – Photographers Of RedBubble Group TOP 10 FINALIST in the / Selective Color Group / Photographer’s Choice Challenge TOP 10 FINALIST in the / That One Great Shot group / Your Best Portrait Challenge / / / / / / / / as well as Color Altering Group Politics,Race,Sexuality & Culture Group Sony Shooters Group and Photo Manipulators Group
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LISTEN TO THIS as this is the inspiration for this piece and poem / The dust has settled on a forgotten tongue / My people wander on land forced on us / The struggle is a constant companion, a crow out of sight / The vision quest blows like kinnick kinnick smoke / The breath of the buffalo is hot on your fortune / Your arrows break and fall short of the hunt / Stolen / Stolen / Stolen / The Elders lay their faces on the Earth and blame it all on your mothers 2 images combined to make a point
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I’ve shot a lot of southwest doorways. This is my personal favorite thus far. This is a 3-shot HDR. Pentax K20D, 1/60 @ F6.3, ISO 100, 200mm
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Taken somewhere along Route 66 in New Mexico.
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Shot at the Acoma Pueblo, New Mexico. HDR, tone mapped and texture overlay.
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