Bosque Mud

Bosque Mud
November 18, 2008

I've always had a hard time photographing Albuquerque. I feel like I never do it justice, like there's so much of it and so much to it, that you can't fit in a frame. So I tend to focus on the smaller stuff that people typically don't notice about Burque.

This picture was taken on the banks of the Rio Grande in the Bosque Wilderness, right off of Rio Bravo. The Bosque is Albuquerque's own little Central Park. Except all of it is sketchy, not just certain parts. It's the sort of place you bring out-of-towners when they want to experience real New Mexico. That's real New Mexico for sure, a bug infested dried up river bed. But it's still pretty in its own way.

(Taken with a Nikon D-80, 18-135mm AF-S DX Zoom-Nikkor Lens. Exposure 1/200, Aperture f/5.3, No 'shopping.)