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Blue Hour Arrivals: Photographing a New City on the Night You Land
An evening flight into a strange city is a gift most photographers sleep through.
Section
Afield
Working on the ground: dawn shoots in the bosque, high-desert light, balloon mornings, one-bag camera kits, and the first night in an unfamiliar city.
02
The One-Bag Camera Kit: A Week of Photographs from One Small Bag
After years of packing for imaginary photographs, I now travel for a week out of one small bag: a body, two lenses, and a charging kit that fits in a fist.
03
Balloon Mornings: Photographing Dawn Ascensions in the Rio Grande Valley
Every October my city fills with balloons, and every October I relearn the same lesson: the picture happens before sunrise, not after.
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High-Desert Light: Learning to Photograph the Air Around Albuquerque
At a mile of elevation, New Mexico's air is thin, dry, and mostly empty, and the light behaves accordingly.
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Dawn With Ten Thousand Geese: The Morning That Named This Journal
Every winter I drive an hour south of Albuquerque in the dark to stand on a frozen deck and wait for the snow geese to leave the water.