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Albuquerque, New Mexico nicknames are The Duke City and Burque, both reference its 1706 founding by Nuevo México governor Francisco Cuervo y Valdés as La Villa de Alburquerque. Named in honor of the Viceroy of New Spain, the 10th Duke of Alburquerque, the city was an outpost on El Camino Real linking Mexico City to the northernmost territories of New Spain

Today's Post by Joe Farace To this day, I have the most fond memories of some of my old toys.—Michael Keaton These days almost all cameras, whether they're DSLR or mirrorless, seem to have some kind of built-in Toy Camera special effect filter. Even the sophisticated,...

Certain phrases have become part of contemporary business language. “The check is in the mail” may be the best and most abused example. As photographers, it’s important that we’re aware that many of these clichés, even if said in good faith, often harbor other meanings. Many of business clients are so insulated from the real world and have no idea of what it’s like for you.

Cinema is a matter of what’s in the frame and what’s out. —Martin Scorsese

Photography is a way of feeling, of touching, of loving. What you have caught on film is captured forever… it remembers little things, long after you have forgotten everything.—Aaron Siskind

Late in his life Strauss was constantly approached by adoring fans asking, “what is the story behind this music?” His reply is above. And so, as Freud once noted, “Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar,” sometimes a photograph is just a picture.