With postponement of an event billed as the world’s largest now back on, Matanzas have been in the news of late.

I had a wonderful opportunity to attend and document the one below recently in the South Valley. As it is here, Matanzas are traditionally a family and community-gathering event, with friends and neighbors helping in the labor-intensive work of processing a large animal. While turning this into a worlds-largest event doesn’t really have the same feel to me, I hope to cover the event in Valencia County whenever it is rescheduled. Stay tuned.

If you are in New Mexico and have a chance, pick up today’s Albuquerque Journal which has a feature story about my exhibition at  Instituto Cervantes. This is the main reason I’ve been such a slacker about posting work on this blog, and I’ll try to do better in the coming months. Hope to see anyone reading this at the opening for the show!

Opening exhibit on Friday 28th, 5pm-7pm at the Pete V. Domenici Education Center, National Hispanic Cultural Center, located at 1701 4th Street SW (4th Street and Avenida César Chávez).

I’ve been really bad about posting of late, but the good news is that I have been busy so there is no shortage of work to share. Here is my take from a story I did for The Communicator recently on rookie jockey Jude Baca from Santa Rosa who is already winning races at the Downs of Albuquerque. My friend Jakob Schiller did a feature on Jude while he was still in high school, getting ready for prom, so check it out too.

Congratulations to the beautiful couple! It was an honor to document such a wonderful ceremony. You can see more photos from the wedding on my archive where prints are also available for purchase.

My thanks to Dolores, Lorenzo, Xavier, Nastasia and Maddox.

I spent a wonderful afternoon going to White Mesa with Michael and Juliette to make some engagement portraits last week. It gave me a chance to get to know them better before I photograph their wedding in the fall, and I like to think it helps them get comfortable and be natural and relaxed with the camera. There are a few more pictures of the happy couple on my archive.

I had the great opportunity to meet and photograph Hilda Raz for the Lincoln Journal Star last week. Hilda and her husband Dale just moved to Placitas, and Nebraska’s loss is New Mexico’s gain. You should read the article. You can also see more of the photos from my first visit with Hilda and Dale on my online archive.

February 23 marks the anniversary of the publishing of the final edition of The Albuquerque Tribune, and alumni gathered locally as we do each year.

It’s great to have an opportunity to catch up with everyone. Some of the photo department folks I see nearly every week or less, but many others I see much less frequently. So much has changed in such a short amount of time. The growth of the kids in these pictures help mark the passage of time. I hope all those who missed it this year can join us next year.

I’ve been having fun shooting in camera square format black & white with my GF-1, a fresh way to see and compose pictures for my eye. If anyone wants copies of these images, just double-click on the picture to access my archive where you download them for free.