New Mexico
New Mexico Petroglyph; Spirits in Stone
by John Rogers on Feb.15, 2010, under HDR, New Mexico, Travel
Somewhere between 300 & 700 years ago the local and or migrating Native Americans (Pueblo, Apache & Navajo) created these petroglyph’s by pecking or striking a stone against these rocks to knock a small bit of the darker surface off the basalt boulder revealing the lighter basalt beneath. These are in the Petroglyph National Monument in New Mexico and they are if you will; a sort of a very early monochromatic pointillism. More accurately, as it says on the nps.gov website “These images are inseparable from the cultural landscape, the spirits of the people who created, and who appreciate them.” As you walk among the boulders you can not help but feel the spirit of these people that they left behind on this land, these stones, these pieces of the earth.
White Sands & Purple Mountains
by John Rogers on Jun.04, 2009, under HDR, New Mexico, Travel
When I was photographing White Sands National Monument in New Mexico, there were certainly no “fruited plains”. However, a thunder storm passed to the west of the Big Brushy Mountains creating beautiful “purple mountains majesties” & a wonderful dark blue sky to contrast with the very white sands.
Does anybody know what the small red & white poles sticking out of the sand are for? (You may have to look at the original size to see them.)
