Northern NM & Southern CO

[MattBurt]

My employer is based in Taos, NM and I telecommute from South/central Colorado. I make a few trips down a year and we just had our holiday party on Tuesday so I made a quick overnight trip with my family to attend. It's about a four hour drive but we took some diversions on the way home and I managed to snap a few photos along the way.

Here's Taos from the little camera
KS-2 & DA 40/2.8 Limited
IMGP4222-Edit.jpg by Matt Burt, on Flickr

Taos Gorge from the bridge
645D & A 45/2.8
IMGP0351-Edit by Matt Burt, on Flickr

Highway 285 near Ojo Caliente, NM
645D & A 200/4
IMGP0362 by Matt Burt, on Flickr

Sangre de Cristo range from near Antonito, Co
645D & A 200/4
IMGP0372-Edit-Edit by Matt Burt, on Flickr

[luxborealis]

Beautiful work, Matt.

[francois]

Time very well spent! I love the last one.

[Bob_B]

Nice stuff, especially the last one.

[MattBurt]

Thanks for the comments!
I felt like I was never in the perfect scene and light combination but then looking at the photos they came out better than I initially feared. Especially the gorge which was right around noon. Glad I stopped and shot even if it wasn't perfect. I still wish I had better light for the highway shot but he mission that day was to get home, not wait for the best light.

[Eric Myrvaagnes]

Nice stuff, especially the last one.

+1.

[James Clark]

Thanks for the comments!
I felt like I was never in the perfect scene and light combination but then looking at the photos they came out better than I initially feared. Especially the gorge which was right around noon. Glad I stopped and shot even if it wasn't perfect. I still wish I had better light for the highway shot but he mission that day was to get home, not wait for the best light.

Love these shots - I have several similar attempts from what look like the same locations   The gorge is a bear to shoot.  The narrowness and the depth and the brightness of the light combine to make things...difficult.  Nicely done.

[MattBurt]

Love these shots - I have several similar attempts from what look like the same locations   The gorge is a bear to shoot.  The narrowness and the depth and the brightness of the light combine to make things...difficult.  Nicely done.

Thanks! I have made many attempts before too. With mixed results. The 645D has an impressive dynamic range for pulling shadow detail back so that helped! I also blew out the sky a little but the B&W conversion helps there.