Adobe at Ranchos Plaza
Here in order are your selections as the best images of 2020. Thanks for
your invaluable input. Unlike 2019 when the top votes getters were evenly split
between images taken with professional cameras and those from my ever-present
iphone, the top five of 2020 were all made with a DSLR. Which isn’t to say
there weren’t worthy smart phone images, but I don’t think they stood up to the
images from my Canon 5D Mark lll.
Blanket of Snow, Ranchos Plaza 
Cruz Blanca #2, La Morada de Nuestra Señora de Guadalupe 
The Last Monsoon, Elizabethtown Cemetery 
Moonrise, Arroyo Hondo
Thanks to those of you that gave me your top five
photographs. There was more continuity this year as Adobe at Ranchos
Plaza and Blanket of Snow were first and second in most of your lists. Notably, Adobe featured the technique called Spot Color that reserves the
color in part of an image while rendering the balance in toned black and white.
It’s a practice I’ve thought of as contrived in the past but felt appropriate this
time. I had a hunch it would be well received. So much so that when I delivered a 16”x20”
framed print to my gallery, Wilder Nightingale, I told owner Rob Nightingale
that “I think this one will sell.” And, when he posted it to Facebook that day,
two sold immediately. It was also my Christmas Card.
Eaves in Shadow, Nuestra Señora de la Asunción 
Ventana, Nuestra Señora de la Asunción
I’ve observed that successful images often come in
clusters. That was true in 2020 when the top two vote getters were
made the same winter morning in Ranchos de Taos and two others among the eleven on my shortlist were taken on the same day in the tiny village of Placita, NM. Those shown above were studies of the shadows cast by a corrugated roof on La Iglesia de
Nuestra Señora de la Asunción. They did not make the top
five but I'm drawn to completely black shadows and the shapes they create.
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2 comments:
It is so interesting that the winners in your survey were all made with your trusty Canon 5D Mark 111 rather than an iPhone. I am not entirely sure what that means but there you have it. The grouping was quite dynamic, and the use of Spot Color was perfect in the Adobe at Ranchos Plaza. It is indeed exciting to hear that when Rob Nightingale posted them on Facebook that you sold two prints immediately. That is the ultimate test and you passed with flying colors. The tones on Blanket of Snow Ranchos Plaza are sheer delight and lusciousness. A great way to begin 2021 rather than the happenings of the past week. Thank you for posting beauty.
Thanks. I think the reason these images were chosen has more to do with the images itself (design, conditions and subject). There may have been iphone images that I should have included. Who knows?
As to the horrific January 6, it was quite predictable and more seems likely. On the plus side did you see that McConnell is receptive to impeachment. I'm glad I was sitting down when I read that nugget.
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