Category: Night

The Week: April 6th — April 12th

Timothy Price14 Comments

Photo of the Day, Etc for the week of April 6th — April 12th:

April 6th: Annoying photos of “Lola, la la la la Lola…”* — http://photos.tandlphotos.com/blog/2015/4/catzilla

April 7th: Lunar eclipse sequence with the Blood Moon — http://photos.tandlphotos.com/blog/2015/4/monday-bloody-monday

April 8th: Colorful dawn — http://photos.tandlphotos.com/blog/2015/4/morning-layers

April 9th: Flowers with more annoying cat photos* — http://photos.tandlphotos.com/blog/2015/4/flora-kitty-fauna

April 10th: Lady Banks — http://photos.tandlphotos.com/blog/2015/4/ladies-first

April 11th: Very NM — http://photos.tandlphotos.com/blog/2015/4/red-green

April 12th: And yet another annoying cat photo* — http://photos.tandlphotos.com/blog/2015/4/inside-looking-up

*There are people who find blog posts with photos of cats to be extremely annoying, so I’m giving fair warning that the post contains cat photos.

The Week: March 30th — April 5th

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Photo of the Day, Etc for the week of March 23rd — 29th includes:

March 30th: Spring flowers and wild boar macaroni — http://photos.tandlphotos.com/blog/2015/3/flowers-food

March 31st: Spunk in the window — http://photos.tandlphotos.com/blog/2015/3/screened

April 1st: Construction — http://photos.tandlphotos.com/blog/2015/4/construction-progress

April 2nd: Spunk gets  his kitty prints — http://photos.tandlphotos.com/blog/2015/4/kitty-prints

April 3rd: Moonrise and Lola — http://photos.tandlphotos.com/blog/2015/4/moonrise-lola-and-the-neon-tulip

April 4th: A snaky lick and wild turkey — http://photos.tandlphotos.com/blog/2015/4/snake-tulips-wild-turkey

April 5th: Flower girl — http://photos.tandlphotos.com/blog/2015/4/i-love-the-flower-girl

Pure Route 66 Since 1936

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If you are in Albuquerque during the holidays, and go to the River of Lights at the ABQ BioPark, you will drive by the El Vado Motel at 2500 Central Ave (Old Route 66). A brief history provided by the Nation Park Service states that it was built by Daniel Murphy in 1937, but a sign on one of the buildings reads “Since 1936”. It was considered “Swanky” with its two rows of single-story rooms, and carports stuck in-between some of the rooms.

Originally named “El Vado Auto Court Motel”, it was built on Central Ave close to where the old Route 66 bridge crossed the Rio Grande, which was the site of a “ford” (crossing) before the bridge was built, thus the name El Vado — “The Ford”. The El Vado was placed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1993, and while it probably is “the purest Route 66 Motel surviving”, it hasn’t been “Open 24 Hours” for many years. Since it’s a national historic place, it can’t simply be demolished, so its buildings sit abandoned and boarded up.

But not all is lost, the City of Albuquerque put out a request for proposal for development and architectural services for The El Vado Redevelopment in July, and unveiled the plan October 1st. A controversy has arisen over the company chosen to redevelop the El Vado, but whoever ends up doing the job, the planned $16 million redevelopment is expected to be completed by 2016 — the year the El Vado turns 80.

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Did Walter White Eat Here?

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I heard the Dog House was in “Breaking Bad”, but I have never seen the show.  I drive by the Dog House quite often, but I have never eaten there. So while I’ve seen the Dog House, I’ve never been there, and while the Dog House is in “Breaking Bad”, I’ve never seen it.

Shooting in the Dark @ Gears and Glamour

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I went to Gears and Glamour on Saturday night at Thunderbird Harley Davidson. The event was a fundraiser for Ability Connection New Mexico, an organization that provides services for people with disabilities to help them achieve their highest level of independence.  The event included live music, a runway fashion show, and the morning show hosts from Coyote 102.5, Erica Viking and the Hoff.  It was an interesting and fun event, the problem was, most of the event was in the dark, including the runway fashion show that had one bank of spotlights lighting the runway from behind, backlighting the models on the main runway. I was up for the challenge of shooting in the dark. Since I didn’t have a flash with me, I didn’t want to photograph the models backlit on the main runway, so I stood by the band to get the models lighted from the side and front on the side runway, and then lighted again from the front on their way back down the main runway. I set my ISO to 3200, lens wide open and my shutter on 1/60 of a sec, which underexposed each shot from 2 to 4 stops. With a lot of post processing, I got the photos to work pretty well. The models in the lead photo asked me to photograph them on the bike, but the only light was from the sign behind them. The photo was almost completely black, besides the sign, so I simply over processed it to give a vintage look.

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Katie with Ability Connection, the Hoff and Erica Viking with the Morning Show on Coyote 102.5

 

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Zimmerman at Night

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Laurie studies in the old part of the Zimmerman Library on UNM Campus while she waits for me to pick her up after work. Zimmerman Library was designed and built by John Gaw Meem in 1938, and it has been in continuous use for the past 76 years. Built in his famous Pueblo Style, Zimmerman is still the heart of UNM’s campus with over a million visits per year according to a booklet celebrating Zimmerman’s 75 years of history. You can read more about John Gaw Meem and the Zimmerman library at http://library.unm.edu/zimmerman75/meem.php.

You can see from Laurie’s interior photo and my exterior photo how Zimmerman’s high ceilings and incandescent lighting creates a warm, magical atmosphere that is calming and conducive to study. Although the study tables look empty, Laurie said there are students at nearly every table, but they are either sitting close to the walls or their backpacks and computers mark their presence.

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