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Photography Critic – I was assigned the task of creating an image organized around a strong angle and contrasting colors. Walking down Canyon Road, Santa Fe's famed gallery row, I discovered this flowery stairway leading to a landing backed by blue-framed windows. As I approached the stairs, this dog appeared at the top, an ideal subject. Using a wide angle converter lens on my digital camera, I moved in as close as I could to the flowers, filling nearly the entire right hand side of the frame with them. I placed the dog in the upper left hand corner of the frame, creating a diagonal flow of subject matter from upper left to lower right. As I began shooting, the dog tilted his head and lowered his ears, almost as if he were evaluating my efforts, and lending a perfect expression to this photographic challenge.

Lady in Red – Another workshop assignment required us to make a picture using the color red as the focal point. I stood alongside a long picket fence on Santa Fe's Canyon Road, and waited for someone to come along wearing red. Eventually this lady obliged, and I photographed her as she entered the right hand edge of the frame. Because of her red sweater, she becomes the focal point of this picture, even though she is very small in scale.

Framed Angel – We were told to feature the color yellow in a photograph using an unconventional angle of view to make its point. I placed my camera in a bed of yellow flowers, causing them to soar towards this painting of an angel hanging outside a gallery on Canyon Road.

Ranchito de la Silla, Santa Fe – We spent a busy afternoon on a ranch just outside of Santa Fe, and one of the pictures we made there had to be an "establishing shot" that symbolized the nature of the place. I built this image around an old drum, a skull, a black metal plate bearing the name and location of the ranch, three horsemen, and part of a bridle.

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