| Santa
Fe, New Mexico |
|
Santa Fe is full of culture, history, art and gorgeous scenery.
It is at the foot of the Rocky Mountains. |
| White
Sands National Park, New Mexico |
|
White Sands is the world's largest gypsum dune field. It is my first
try of nature photography. |
| Christmas
Eve in Albuquerque, New Mexico |
|
Christmas Eve is very unique in Albuquerque because of these lights
on the ground. People were gathering and singing Christmas songs in downtown
ABQ. |
| Snow
in Albuquerque, New Mexico |
|
We got heavy snow right after Christmas in Albuquerque. Although it
delayed our trip, I got time to take pictures of snow and try out different
settings. |
| Carlsbad
Cavern National Park, New Mexico |
|
This is one of great national parks we have seen. We took "Big Room
Route" since we had limited time in this park. |
| Saguaro
National Park, Arizona |
|
Giant saguaro cacti, unique to the Sonoran Desert, some of them reach
a height of 50 feet in this cactus forest. |
| Petrified
Forest National Park, Arizona |
|
It is really two parks in one, the Painted Desert at the North end
and the Rainbow Forest at the South end. The park covers over 93,533 acres
and consists of six separate "forests" that took over 200 million years
to form. |
| Hoover
Dam, Nevada |
|
On the way to Las Vegas, we stopped by Hoover Dam. |
| Las
Vegas, Nevada |
|
Pictures we took around Las Vegas. |
| San
Diego and Zoo, California |
|
World famous zoo -- San Diego Zoo. |
