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Giggles, New Mexico State Fair – One of our assignments at the fair was environmental portraiture, a staple of travel photography. We had to convince strangers to pose for us, and place them in settings that tell us who they are and what they do. I spent a half hour with Giggles, who offers a face painting concession at the fair. This shot is all about color and gesture, and her "menu" of faces made a perfect setting.

Portrait of a Portrait – A portrait within a portrait offers whimsical subject matter at New Mexico's State Fair. I stood behind these artists as they worked, relating them, as well as their desks and cash register, to the smiling couple they are portraying. This is another "layered" picture. The foreground thrusts the viewer into the picture, the middle ground features the subjects, and the colorful backdrop offers context.

Fun at the Fair – Clutching a bag of popcorn and wearing a cowboy hat, this young fellow enjoyed posing for Santa Fe Workshop photographers at New Mexico's State Fair. Using a colorful background of stacked hats, other photographers set up their shots as straight-on environmental portraits. I crouched off to one side, and used a low camera position to capture his enthusiastic response and make the towers of hats stacked behind him seem to soar as high as his spirits.

Dozing Dad – I saw this exhausted fellow taking a nap on the grass behind bleachers set up for a seal show at the New Mexico State Fair. A little girl kept running back and forth in front of me. I couldn't resist bringing these two elements together to add a touch of visual incongruity to my day's work at the Fair.

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