City of Rocks State Park, New Mexico - At least fifty thousand people a year visit southeast New Mexico's City of Rocks State Park, located about mid-way between Deming and Silver City. The exotic collection of volcanic "art," set in the middle of a grama grass plain, was formed by a huge explosion called the Kneeling Nun eruption about thirty four million nine hundred thousand years ago. More...

Navajo Rock Art and Pueblitos -
Four-Corners holds secrets of Navajo history. Some of the most dramatic art galleries in New Mexico aren't in Santa Fe, nor are their priceless masterpieces stored in hermetically sealed vaults for safekeeping. The petroglyph images on canyon-wall galleries near Farmington have been exposed to the blazing sun and torrential storms of the Southwest for 300 years. More...

Shutterbug 101: Taking a visual journey - Continuing our chat about composition, let’s review a bit from last week. Putting the horizon line in the center of a landscape has a tendency to cut the image in half, where the two parts do not necessarily create a more harmonious whole. When you are standing or crouching in position you have to make a decision. More...

Shutterbug 101: Where do your lines lead? Lines are everywhere, roads, rivers, railings, avenues of trees, highway markings, telegraph poles and railroad tracks wending their way through the countryside. Use lines or objects to lead the eye into the image or to create the illusion of movement. The lines can be actual, like lines on a road, railroad tracks or they can be groupings of objects that create the illusion of a line. More...

Call to Discovery: West Texas' Chihuahuan Desert - If you come from, say, the Eastern Woodlands, the Pacific Northwest or the Gulf Coast, with their forested hills and plains, you may suffer from environmental shock as you cross the northern Chihuahuan Desert, from western Texas over southern New Mexico and into Arizona. More...

Get the latest Colorado River information - The rivers feeding Lake Powell are below average, but the lake starts to rise at this time of year. Lake levels are changing as the water flow down the Colorado river to Mexico through the dams and lakes. More...