k-hawinkler , nice pics. Are you doing a hiking trip somewhere?
Thank you mazor. No, I live here in Los Alamos (White Rock), New Mexico.
New Mexico is also often referred to as the "Land of Enchantment".
All the pictures were taken either in my backyard or within 10 to 15 minutes of driving and fairly short hikes of a couple of miles.
For example Bandelier National Monument's Visitor Center is just 10 miles from my house and the Monument itself one of my favorite hiking spots. The Monument is huge and has extensive backcountry trails, some requiring overnight camping. But the main Frijoles Canyon with its many caves, ruins, Frijoles Creek, and a couple of water falls extends about a mile each in opposite directions from the Visitor Center.
From Los Alamos or White Rock one has a spectacular view of the Sangre de Cristo Mountains from Santa Fe all the way to Taos - the latter about 70 miles of line of sight away, or to Sandia Mountain near Albuquerque. Then there is the Valle Grande with its enormous caldera in the Jemez Mountains to the west.
We are also in the fly way of the Sandhill Cranes and Canadian geese that winter further south at the Bosque del Apache National Wildlife Refuge near Socorro, NM.
I should really enlarge my circle of daily photography by a bit to include Santa Fe, Albuquerque, Taos, and the Sangre de Cristo and Jemez mountains as well as the Rio Grande valley.
I posted many more of my local images here
http://www.getdpi.com/forum/sony/56138-a7r-a7r2-why-im-keeping-both.html
and here
http://www.getdpi.com/forum/sony/49470-a7r-why-im-keeping.html.