HOLGA WORKSHOP IN JULY
Not long ago we at Tortuga Photoworkshops conducted a Holga workshop at the Harwood Art Center facilities where students learns the basics of operating the amazing “Toy” plastic toy camera. The participants ranged in all ages and backgrounds from High School to Government engineers. Thanks to all for attending and we look forward to announcing [...]
Gear for workshop in El Salvador
Three weeks ago Steven St. John and I conducted a workshop in El Salvador, more specifically on the island of Meanguera. The trip was filled with wonderful people and spectacular weather. The humidity was something to get used to but overall the workshop was a success. Pictured is most of the gear I took on [...]
White Sands and Lightroom
Just posting a quick pick from a color raw file then converted to black and white using Adobe’s Lightroom. The photo was taken at White Sand’s National park in southern New Mexico. I’ll be posting picks from my trip down to southern New Mexico from a trip two weeks ago.
Holga Work
Tortuga photo Workshops is getting ready to teach a workshop on everybody’s favorite camera the HOLGA. I’ve posted this slideshow to show you what is possible with this lovely plastic medium format camera. There is still space available for the workshop which will be held in July at the Harwood Art Center. Follow this link [...]
finitefoto interview with Roberto Rosales
The just released issue #8 of finitefoto focuses on Photojournalism and features an interview with your very own Roberto Rosales. “David Ondrik sat down with me, to discuss photography, teaching, blogging, and film.” Finite Foto (formerly Flash Flood) is a new media collective that investigates and promotes the intersection of photography and culture in the [...]
2010 Gathering of Nations Pow Wow
2010 POW WOW – Images by Roberto Rosales The Gathering of Nations is one of the most spectacular events to attend every year. The songs and drum numbers performed throughout the days are powerful and transcend emotions and energy in a way that cannot be described. These photos are a few of the images captured [...]
Bosque Del Apache
Mom was in town last week and she had never seen the Bosque Del Apache Wildlife Refuge. Pictured are a pair of Sand Hill cranes.
Dia de los Muertos
Sunday afternoon called for going to Albuquerque’s South Valley to photograph the Dia de los Muertos parade. It is an awesome event full of surprises and wonderful faces to photograph. Thanks to all who allowed to be photograph. The first four frames were shot using a medium format camera, the rest are digital.
Mural comes to life.
being a journalist, you often have a chance to bring to light a story that deserves attention and perhaps if it makes the newspaper it can grow and offer someone a chance to discover their talent. I came across a group of kids who as part of the Mayor’s Summer Program, were able to bring [...]
Too Close to Home!
On Saturday June 20th 2009, I got a call from my editor to rush down to a Denny’s restaurant on the West side of town to cover a shooting. For some reason we don’t have enough scanners around to respond immediately to such a situation in the morning hours of our shift. Anyway, I rushed [...]
Road trip and the G9
Last week during a family trip through Utah I visited some of my favorite places in the U.S including Monument Valley and the Big Crater in Arizona just off I-40. I shot these two photos with my Canon G9 using the stich panoramic function. Not too bad I guess for a point and shoot camera.
New Website!
If you would like to follow the work I don’t display on this blog then check out my new website
Drug Enforcement in New Mexico
This is a video I shot this past week while covering Border patrol agents in the boot heel area of New Mexico some 50 miles south of Lordsburg, New Mexico. The video was produced by my coworker Troy Simpson. This is a preview of the story that should run later in the week and it [...]
MISSING
Over the last few weeks Albuquerque has been haunted by the recent findings of 13 bodies out on the west mesa where a future home development would be built. Only a few bodies have been identified and theories as to who might have committed these murders are starting to fly with the most common one [...]
A Good Night
Thursday was just a horrible day dealing with newsroom politics and to top it off, my toe was bruised. I can even say I was a bit depressed. All that ended when I arrived at the Bear Canyon Senior Center for Senior Dance Night. To see such wonderful folks cut the rug and smile at [...]
Virgen de Guadalupe Day
The Virgen de Guadalupe day was an event I went to shoot for myself. I mixed digital images and medium format black and white still to make a Soundlslide project. The squarish images were shot on a Hasselblad Kodak Tri-X 320 speed film and scanned on a Nikon Super Coolscan 9000.
Model Shoe Shine Parlor Established 1931
This is the first Multimedia piece I have managed to put on my blog. It was created last year and it was originally shot in color and then converted to black and white. This is my first attempt to publishing new work. The whole story was shot in about three days at three different times [...]
