7/24/2009:

We turned left at Albuquerque instead of again going right. Which means that as soon as I get caught up on some clients' webwork, I'm going to reward myself by working up a new folio of photographs from SW New Mexico, including the Gila Cliff Dwellings, stars and storms over the Casitas de Gila, a quick look at El Malpais National Monument, hummingbirds, an honest to God wild rattlesnake, and whatever else I can mine from 28,000,000,000 bytes of raw images I hauled home. If I promise to put it here, eventually I will.

 

Night at the Casitas de Gila, Gila, New Mexico.
7x30s , 10-22mm EFs Canon @ 13mm, F4.
Canon 50D @ ISO 1600
Images aligned and averaged. Foreground and background processed seperately to retain detail in each.