WITH SOME OF THE MOST BREATHTAKING LANDSCAPES in the world, New Mexico almost implores you to get outdoors. Among those spots that call out to us? Our 35 state parks and their rivers, cliffs…
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MY COMPANIONS AND I LABORED THROUGH DEEP SNOW for 15 long minutes—and this after driving through two-foot-deep drifts on the way up to the caldera on a frigid February evening. Now, as we trudged on…
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1ST PLACE Song Dog in the Snow, Pam Dorner (above) “I took my youngest dog Blue (a Labrador Retriever mix) on a hike in the bosque near my home in Rio Rancho, before an early October snowstorm. The…
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1ST PLACE Seeking Shelter, Tim Baca (above) “I’ve passed this old cabin many times without knowing it was there. It sits behind a hill, and you can only see it while traveling west. Luckily, I…
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1ST PLACE In Omi’s Garden, Joaquin Martinez (above) “My daughter spends most Sundays with her Omi (grandmother), and helps her to tend the chickens and the vegetable and flower garden. She and the…
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1ST PLACE Bolts Above Albuquerque, Aaron Blanc (above) “After tracking storms rolling across central New Mexico, the opportunity to photograph storms in the late afternoon was upon me. I ventured up…
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1st Place Abó Rising, Reece Parker (above) “As one who loves all things New Mexico and especially the history buried in the landscape, visiting Abó and the larger Salinas Pueblo Missions National…
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MY DAUGHTER HAD COME FOR A VISIT between college semesters. A bit of a shutterbug, she wanted her itinerary to include photographing some of New Mexico’s landscapes and a sunset or two. So I sought…
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ON THE SCREEN, a massive elk with intimidating antlers and a tuft of grass hanging from his mouth moved over a ridge, keeping a watchful eye over two downslope females. We’d just begun debating images…
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WHILE NOTHING LIFTS THE SPIRIT QUITE like the colorful balloon-filled skies of the Albuquerque International Balloon Fiesta’s mass ascension, we’re here for all of it: the balloon rodeos, dawn…
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