Friday Photoblogging

I think I'll use Fridays to show one of my photos. That said, today's photo wasn't taken my me at all.

In September of 2006, I took a three-week driving trip west, spending my time in Colorado, New Mexico, and Utah. In New Mexico I stayed with my good friends Miya and Andrew in Dixon, and we did a few hikes in the area. This hike is to an area called Valle Vista, which gives a great overlook into the Rio Grande gorge.

Miya took this photo while I was lining up a vista of the river. Her photo is a lot better than what I came up with. It does a great job of highlighting the curve in the river, with the person in the foreground giving a sense of how far up we are. And the angle makes it feel that the person is right on the edge of the cliff. (I was plenty safe, though I did feel a need to be very careful!) Anyway it's a great illustration of what I was doing on that trip, and of my somewhat random photography habit too.