Year of the Consulship of Pudens and Pollio

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These caramel apples were lined up in the candy shop.
Very photogenic, those caramel apples.

Exposure time: 1/50 s
Aperture: f/5.6
ISO: 1600

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Donkeys! I like donkeys a lot these days. This is a statue of three donkeys cuddling. How cute.

Exposure time: 1/320 s
Aperture: f/3.8
ISO: 200

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The Oldest House.
There is a bit of controversy over this claim.

Exposure time: 1/500 s
Aperture: f/3.5
ISO: 200

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Outside of the Loretto Chapel there was a tree that had all of these rosaries hung on it.

Exposure time: 1/320 s
Aperture: f/5.6
ISO: 250

Unfortunately, this photo makes it very obvious to me that the colors are not quite as bright when I upload the photo with blogger, compared to viewing it in iphoto... something to think about I guess.

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Fancy-pants weather vane things.

Exposure time: 1/1600 s
Aperture: f/4.5
ISO: 250

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There were a lot of chiles in Santa Fe. Usually they were hanging in bundles like this. I feel like that would be the way to dry the chiles out for eating in the future. But I'm pretty sure these were being sold as decoration.

Exposure time: 1/125 s
Aperture: f/11
ISO: 250

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Same cathedral, different view.

Exposure time: 1/800 s
Aperture: f/4.5
ISO: 500

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This is the St. Francis of Assissi cathedral in Santa Fe, NM.

Exposure time: 1/800 s
Aperture: f/4.5
ISO: 500

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Here is another view of the smoke in front of the setting sun. This was taken from the steps of the Cathedral, hence the St. Francis statue. The top left of the image shows some actual clouds in the sky, but the rest is all smoke from the wild fires near Santa Fe.

Exposure time: 1/125 s
Aperture: f/18
ISO: 250

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Smoke as seen from Santa Fe.
There are some pretty huge wild fires in the drier parts of the US. Two are very near Santa Fe. The smoke was most visible on this day, when it was blocking out the sunset, and putting an orange glow on the city. Most days the smoke was not really visible, but my eyes were so dry and itchy, which was probably due to smoke in the air.

Exposure time: 1/640 s
Aperture: f/5.3
ISO: 250

148 - gimp week

So I wanted to do some gimping that did not involve color boosting as the main fix. Unfortunately, I didn't quite get to that this time around. I really like photos that have an antique-look to them. Or photos that have a prairie-look to them. I haven't yet taken a photo that I've been able to properly prairie-ize, so I present to you the last photo for this gimp week series.



It is, once again, of the color boost variety. This is a self portrait, as seen through Ian's sunglasses, when I was in Santa Fe for a conference recently.