Santuario de Chimayo II - Todd Hakala

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Southwest Landscapes

Photos from the Four Corner states and beyond.

Landscape photography is what originally intrigued me when I started to get serious about photography. I still love to find these places and capture them in the best way that I am able. 

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Through the fence, between the curling flower spaces, I could see them shooting.

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It was the best of photography, it was the worst of nothing, it was the age of sharing, it was the age of privacy.

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Whether I shall turn out to be the best photographer of my own life, or whether that station will be held by anybody else, these portfolio pages must show.

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Someone must have shared Josef K’s portfolio, for one morning, without having done anything truly self-promotional, he was lauded.

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Happy photographers are all on SlickPic; every unhappy photographer is unhappy on some other service.

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It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single person in possession of good photography skills, must be in want of a portfolio.

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Wikipedia: Each year some 300,000 people from all over the world make pilgrimages to the Santuario de Chimayó during Holy Week,[14] especially on Holy Thursday and Good Friday, some seeking blessings and some in fulfillment of a vow.[15] Walking is traditional; some pilgrims walk from as far away as Albuquerque, about 90 miles (150 km).[14] While the pilgrimage began in the 19th century, it was revived by survivors of the Bataan Death March after World War II.[16][17][18][19]<br /><br />Many visitors to the church take a small amount of the "holy dirt", often in hopes of a miraculous cure for themselves or someone who could not make the trip. Formerly, at least, they often ate the dirt.[6] (Likewise pilgrims to the original shrine of Esquipulas eat the supposedly curative clay found there.)[8] Seekers of cures more commonly rub themselves with the dirt or simply keep it.
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Santuario de Chimayo II - Todd Hakala
Wikipedia: Each year some 300,000 people from all over the world make pilgrimages to the Santuario de Chimayó during Holy Week,[14] especially on Holy Thursday and Good Friday, some seeking blessings and some in fulfillment of a vow.[15] Walking is traditional; some pilgrims walk from as far away as Albuquerque, about 90 miles (150 km).[14] While the pilgrimage began in the 19th century, it was revived by survivors of the Bataan Death March after World War II.[16][17][18][19]<br /><br />Many visitors to the church take a small amount of the "holy dirt", often in hopes of a miraculous cure for themselves or someone who could not make the trip. Formerly, at least, they often ate the dirt.[6] (Likewise pilgrims to the original shrine of Esquipulas eat the supposedly curative clay found there.)[8] Seekers of cures more commonly rub themselves with the dirt or simply keep it.