Capturing the Color

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Sonia at her blog soniajonestravel urged Kongo to submit a response to the “Capturing the Color” photo challenge where participants post favorite travel photos for red, white, blue, yellow, and white.  The image above, taken at the Plaza Square in Santa Fe, highlights the color blue (the jeans).  Read on for the rest of the monkey’s color choices and thank you Sonia for suggesting this to Kongo! Continue reading “Capturing the Color”

Weekly Photo Challenge: One shot, two ways

This week’s Photo Challenge is to take a picture of the same subject in two different ways.  Never good at following directions, Kongo decided to take this challenge on in three ways. While visiting Santa Fe, New Mexico a few weeks ago the monkey became enamored with The Shrine of Our Lady of Guadalupe.  He loves the simple but classic architecture and clean lines.  So he tried shooting it three different ways using the “rule of thirds” in the composition.  The first photo had some green trees around the base of the steeple but the monkey thought that was a bit … Continue reading Weekly Photo Challenge: One shot, two ways

NatGeo Santa Fe Photo Workshop: A (Updated) Review

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Joe McNally at Ghost Ranch, New Mexico

Kongo spent last week in Santa Fe, New Mexico attending a National Geographic Expeditions Photography Workshop.  This is a review of the workshop.  I updated this post to include a video made by the staff of our week in the Photo Workshop. Continue reading “NatGeo Santa Fe Photo Workshop: A (Updated) Review”

Good Morning Santa Fe

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Our Lady of Guadalupe Shrine caught the monkey’s eye yesterday morning while he was out and about on photo assignment.  Our class at the NatGeo Photo Expedition Workshop started out at the Santa Fe Railroad Yard with a theme to explore Santa Fe waking up.  Santa Fe is one of those places that wakes up slowly.  It seemed to be a stretch and yawn and snooze for another five minutes kind of place. Continue reading “Good Morning Santa Fe”