I hope that you are all healthy and as happy as possible in these strange times.
It has now been more than half a year since the Coronavirus Pandemic first hit the news and upended our lives, and despite some of the misinformation being distributed on social media, we don’t know how or when this will end.
Continue reading Hello RMOWP Family!
Is the social isolation caused by the Coronavirus pandemic driving you nuts? One escape is to America’s national parks. (The photo to the right was taken at Bryce Canyon National Park.)
Continue reading National Parks Partly ReopenedBy Don & Barbara Laine
New Mexico has lost an institution.
The Pie-O-Neer Pie Bar in Pie Town, New Mexico, has closed after more than 20 years in business, a victim of the Coronavirus pandemic. The announcement was made by owner Kathy Knapp, according to an article in the Socorro, New Mexico, newspaper “El Defensor Chieftain.” She told the newspaper that she opened the pie shop for the season this year on Pi Day (March 14), but because of the pandemic closed the next day. More on Pi Day below.
Continue reading Pie Lady of Pie Town Calls it QuitsWhen: October 4-5, 2020 – just prior to conference
Where: Alamogordo, NM
Member Rate: $250 including lunch both days
Take Control of Your Photography is a 1 1/2 day workshop that will make you a better photographer: more proficient, more artistic, and more confident.
Continue reading One-and-one-half day Photo Workshop AnnouncedBy Don Laine
Several months ago we announced that RMOWP’s 2020 conference was planned for early October in Alamogordo, New Mexico, home to White Sands National Monument. Leave it to our federal government to make a liar of me.
Continue reading RMOWP Heads to Country’s Newest National Park in 2020Text and photos by Jack Olson
A little while ago I was asked about the control of depth of field for photography in a field of columbine and I explained in a newsletter article. Now I want to get into a discussion conerning Gardening and Grooming. I used to talk about gardening, and if it was ever acceptible. Some of our photographers may disagree in this but, for now, I hold the stage.
Continue reading Gardening & GroomingPoem By Judy Lehmkuhl
I stand on the autumn-warmed tundra
Pelted by graupel falling straight down
Listening to the bull elk bugle
By Ian King
You hadn’t exactly been making tawaf, that great, frenzied, swarming circumambulation of the Holy Kaaba in Mecca; and you clearly hadn’t been doing anything quite like the Muslim Hajj, either. Nonetheless, in a limited, quasi-metaphorical way, it is the first pilgrimage-like parallel you draw when you reflect on your visit to Sprague Lake in Rocky Mountain National Park in early September 2019.
Continue reading Dr. Faustus at Sprague LakeMark your calendars for the 2020 conference of Rocky Mountain Outdoor Writers and Photographers – October 5 to 8 – headquartering in Alamogordo, New Mexico. That’s Sunday through Thursday night.
Why Alamogordo? Mainly because it’s the closest place to some of the most scenic and fascinating destinations in southern New Mexico.
Continue reading 2020 Conference SetAfter 14 years at the same rate, the RMOWP board of directors has decided it’s time to raise membership dues. Beginning in January 2020 one year will be $60, with a second person at the same address $50.
Continue reading Dues are going up!