In the 1980s in wandered around The Land of Enchantment armed a variety of primitive cameras that ranged from from my first Kodak box camera that I inherited from my parents to a 35mm job that I purchased from a drug store. What I lacked in quality photographic equipment I tried to make up for in content along with some heart and soul.
Albuquerque residents get used to seeing hot air balloons floating around the city from time to time culminating in the fist part of October when the city hosts Albuquerque International Balloon Fiesta in which balloons from all over the world fill the sky.
To be quite honest I never thought that this shot would turn out and I was pleasantly surprised when the image of four US Air Force Thunderbird jets in a diamond came back from the Photomat. This was shot over Kirtland AFB in the early eighties.
If hot air balloons are a common sight to Albuquerque residents then snow atop the Sandia Mountains in the Winter would be considered equally as common. This photo was taken off Interstate 25 between Santa Fe and Albuquerque.
If you look very closely at the center of this shot you should be able to see a structure that we used to call the Rock House at the base of the Sandia's just off Tramway Blvd. What the structure is, we never took time to find out but we always assumed it was some old abandoned home.
If you head east in Interstate 40 out of Albuquerque and then head north up New Mexico State Road 14 (also know as the Turquoise Trail) you will come to a fork in the road where there are a few abandoned houses. Luckily for me on this Fall day the area was blanketed with sunflowers.
The 80s were a far simpler time.
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