David C. | A Desert Dweller
I'm a Las Cruces NM ecoregion junkie, design aficionado, and organizer. Trend-proof is my style. My day job is a horticultural consultant and designer, following 30 years in landscape architecture, over 3 years as a county planner, and overlapped by 20 years as a landscape architect in a solo practice. My arid spot on the earth is USDA Zone 8b / Sunset Zone 10
You can click on many of my images to enlarge. Unless noted, all are mine; thanks for *not* reusing images or content. Feel free to do so with credit to me or simply by asking.
If the day’s weather and my post relate, I extrapolate nearby weather conditions for my house. That date’s high and low temperature with any precipitation are listed.
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My camera is a Nikon D3400 DSLR (digital, not film), and it’s used for most photos in It’s a Dry Heat. The standard lens is an 18-55 mm; sometimes I use the 70-300 mm telephoto lens.
Some images are from my iPhone 13 mini or an old Nikon Coolpix S3700 handheld camera. Rarely I include scanned prints from my HP Officejet Pro 7740.
I do minimal or no processing, treating light and shadow as my friends. Working in the desert, I often have to shoot into intense sun and shadow, even midday light. Adobe Photoshop is used to adjust an image that’s different than what I saw.
No matter what, I first capture the big picture before any details.
It's A Dry Heat 
Very creative.
Many thanks for your shared images of the season.
Thanks for visiting – next time I should show farolitos from Santa Fe north, and luminarias Abq south!
And maybe biscochitos from Abq north, and bizcochos in the south…
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Beautiful, love that cactus wrapped in lights. Need to add that to the collection next year!
Hope you had a great holiday.
The spines hold the lights in high winds, too. Thanks, and same to the Foxes!
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Spiky Christmas y Prospero Año Nuevo, tambien! Hope you are having a lovely holiday!
Thanks so much, and all the above to you! I am…doing anything special?
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Merry Christmas and a Spiky New Year to you!
Thanks, and well-said, as always!
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Merry Christmas!
You too (even the deer…at a distance), hope some of your family is there!
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Hope this is your merriest Christmas, David!
Thanks so much, it just may be!
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I can smell the mesquite in the hearth from here. Merry Christmas, David!
Me too & this killer roast in the oven…you and your family, too!
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Hope you are having a great Christmas. Need snow?
You too, thanks! Yes to that snow – 2 ft. for the mountains, and an inch tonight for in town, please…need to keep my trail clear for the mtn bike ride later:-)
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We do have two feet here but unable to get out to give you some⛄️⛄️⛄️
Hope your day was great!
It is, thanks…and everyone has big trucks to take care of that snow!
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Merry Christmas, David!
Thanks, Mr. PDX!
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Happy Holidays!
Thanks…and I’m thinking of how warm it is in Phx!
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Merry Christmas, David!
Thank you, veramuch, “Elvis”!
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