Galisteo Basin Project/ Valles Caldera Project

As I reach the end of this first Galisteo Basin Project I am transitioning to a project focusing on my favorite place in New Mexico, The Valles Caldera.  This is a volcanic caldera at the top of the Jemez Mountains.  Driving up the mountain from Los Alamos and reaching an elevation of 11,253 feet you leave the forest and are greeted by the vast openness of the caldera.  Depending on the time of year the caldera shifts in color and intensity of light, the cloud coverage varies drastically and changes quickly behind the mountain peaks surrounding the caldera.  There is an ancient feel to a place like this that has drawn me in from the first time I saw it.  Like my Galisteo Basin project I hope to capture the different seasons and ebs and flows of life and death in Valles Caldera.  As always I hope to evoke the feeling of the place rather than a reproduction of it.