New Mexican mornings

I've said it before and I'll say it again - we are so blessed with sunrises and sunsets here in New Mexico. Yesterday morning we had this beautiful orange-pink sunrise that lasted just a few minutes before clouds on the horizon snuffed out the light.

We had some snow last night, everyone got worked up and schools/work are on a 2-hour delay today. I can walk to work, and am a creature of habit, so I was up at my normal time. The clouds are hanging low over the mountains, I can't wait to see the new snowfall later today.

I was struck by the color difference in the two photos. So warm on the top photo, so cold on the bottom one. While the top photo is a bit more zoomed in, they were taken from the same spot pointed in the same direction.

Cheers,

Marc

Comet C/2022 E3 (ZTF)

Go check out this comet in the early morning - it is a bit under the handle (closer to the horizon) of the Big Dipper to the north, getting closer to the North Star every day. If the weather cooperates, I will try to photograph it again next week. I have some new software that I am learning, not to mention that you need binoculars to see it (makes it really hard to center in the viewfinder = lots of trial and error!).

Cheers,

Marc

Happy New Year!

Happy New Years everyone - here is to a happy, healthy, and blessed 2023!

Marc

End of Year

I had an idea for some photos - it has some promise, but it was a bit too cold and windy outside to really make this work well. I know what I need to do for the next time, though!

In the meantime, enjoy some photos of my favorite people.

Cheers!

Marc

Moonshot

I hope this one turns out for the blog. I found out that the moon was going to occult Mars tonight. After Leah took me for a drive around the Range, I got the camera out and got to watch the moon block Mars from view.

In this photo, some clouds had just passed, blocking the moon. You can just barely see Mars to the bottom left of the moon. This was taken just minutes before more clouds blocked the moon which blocked Mars from view. Weird.

Cheers!

Marc

Star Trails over the Organ Mountains

I was up a bit early this morning, and since there were no clouds, I made my way to a fair viewpoint of the Organ Mountains to photograph the stars. I decided I wanted to play around with some star trails. This looks a bit better in photoshop than on the web, but still pretty decent. 

Cheers,

Marc

Wintry Thanksgiving

Happy Thanksgiving everyone!

Catherine made us a great meal for Thanksgiving - no surprises there. We played it pretty low key for the day. Today, we woke up to clouds and snow on the mountains. It has been snowing on and off all day at altitude, only once did it spit some snow at us, but nothing stuck around here.

When sunset came around, the skies lit up. Enjoy!

Marc