Category: Miscellaneous

Historic Audrey Shaft Headframe

One of the fascinating realities about Jerome is that it sits atop a massive network of mining tunnels, hidden directly underground. Visitors to the Audrey Headframe Park can…

Real-Life Horror: Fostering Kittens

I recently published photos of three foster kittens I cared for in July 2020. As is often the case, the published images might give the impression that this…

John Carpenter’s Halloween (Forty Years Ago Today)

The world was introduced to Michael Myers on October 25, 1978, when John Carpenter’s Halloween hit theaters. After a slow start and poor initial reviews, it eventually gained…

Dysfunctional Grace Art Company

Do you remember the movie “Roxanne” with Steve Martin and Daryl Hannah? There was a brief scene in front of a little mountain store called “All Things Dead”….

Titans of the Cold War

The Titan Missile Museum near Tucson, Arizona offers an interesting and thought-provoking glimpse into life at a nuclear-missile silo during the height of the Cold War. Time required…

They All Died Together

They All Died Together – A mining explosion in northern New Mexico killed 263 men on October 22, 1913.  Ten years later, another explosion in that same area…

What The Hell Just Happened?

I was born fifty years ago this month. Fifty years. Five-oh. Fifty freaking years. In the blink of an eye, my life has moved from having it all…

The Roswell Incident

It was sixty-seven years ago today that a legend was born in Roswell, New Mexico. The front-page headline in the Roswell Daily Record proclaimed “RAAF Captures Flying Saucer…

All Bad Things Must Come To An End

Fictional enterprise; real sign. Visitors to the Twisters location at 4257 Isleta Blvd. SW in Albuquerque, New Mexico are greeted by the “Los Pollos Hermanos” emblem still decorating…

Behind The Scenes: Zombie Apocalypse

The following discussion details my creative process used for the Zombie Apocalypse photo published on this site. The photo was motivated by two separate assignments, each with a…

Breaking Bad with Albuquerque’s Candy Lady

If you’re not a fan of the show, you may well think Albuquerque has lost it’s mind. Drug-themed candy? Are you kidding me?!?? But for all of the…

Project 365 Retrospective

I recently completed my first “365” project, where participants take a new photo every day for an entire year. Post contains a full calendar with links to project photos.