Editor’s Letter: Photo Ops
I WAS ALREADY in sweats and slippers when my wife, Kathleen, started seeing photos of the northern lights over Santa Fe on social media. “Should we try to see them?” she asked, somewhat unconvinced…
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Category: January
Datebook: January/February 2026
THE MT. TAYLOR WINTER QUADRATHLON, in Grants, is more than an endurance race—it’s a heart-pounding, quad-burning celebration of winter. The 44-mile course, which gains 5,400 feet in elevation…
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The Persistence of Memory
THE FIRST SUNRISE OF 2025 has yet to warm the buttresses of San Francisco de Asís church in Ranchos de Taos. Several dozen people shiver in its front courtyard. A few wear a hodgepodge of ceremonial…
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New Mexico’s Best Ice Fishing Lakes
Fenton Lake State Park. Great mountain views and sunshine make this Jemez Springs fishing hole a local winter favorite. “It’s special because of its proximity to Albuquerque,” says Mike Ruhl…
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Hooked on Ice Fishing
M ark Montaño grew up fishing in Santa Rosa. But he’d never been ice fishing until an art teaching job lured him to Colorado in 1988. The watercolor artist fell in love with the winter pastime and…
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The 25th Annual Photos of the Year
GRAND PRIZE Where Enchantment Dwells, Lauren Baca Lauren Baca grew up in East Texas, where severe weather was always part of life, “but never the photogenic, beautiful storms you get on the plains,”…
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Meet the 25th Annual Photo Awards Grand Prize Winner
PHOTOGRAPHY MAY HAVE brought Lauren and Timothy Baca together, but storm chasing is the Moriarty couple’s love language. Lauren grew up in East Texas, where severe weather was always a part of her…
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Milagro Beanfield War
A STATE OF WAR grips Truchas. Trucks by the dozen round the hairpin curves on the narrow mountain road leading into the village. Guards stand sentry at strategically placed barricades. A helicopter…
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Five Things to Do This Weekend
1 Ponder Earth’s memories. Photographs of stones make up Language of the Land , Bernice Ficek-Swenson’s new exhibition at Strata Gallery, in Santa Fe. A Minnesota artist, Ficek-Swenson sees her images…
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One of Our 50 Is Missing: January/ February 2025
HATS OFF Perhaps a record number of readers wrote in to express their dismay at some new offerings in the recent Southwest Indian Foundation catalog. The Gallup-based nonprofit enticed shoppers to…
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