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Just north of Santa Fe near the skiing area is a huge Aspen forest! Too bad it was early spring and there weren’t any leaves just yet.\u00a0 I bet around Oct it would look gorgeous for all types of photography, or just to marvel at the yellow and sunlight streaming through the trees.\u00a0 It truly would be komorebi maxed out. On the way there we did incur the wrath of a pidgey bird type pokemon.\u00a0 The rest of the photos are just going around town with the digicam found at the amazing local thrift store!<\/p>\n

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And that’s it! I was starting to miss the traffic in Atlanta! \ud83d\ude09 Thanks for following along!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Just north of Santa Fe near the skiing area is a huge Aspen forest! Too bad it was early spring and there weren’t any leaves just yet.\u00a0 I bet around Oct it would look gorgeous for all types of photography, or just to marvel at the yellow and sunlight streaming through the trees.\u00a0 It truly […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":112171,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[262,351],"class_list":{"0":"post-112178","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","6":"hentry","7":"category-photos","8":"tag-fujifilm-x100","9":"tag-landscapes","11":"post-with-thumbnail","12":"post-with-thumbnail-large"},"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.b-vong.com\/journal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Santa-Fe-NM-2025-04-28-005_Boon-Vong.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pelE0-tbk","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":110815,"url":"https:\/\/www.b-vong.com\/journal\/santa-fe-new-mexico-pt-2\/","url_meta":{"origin":112178,"position":0},"title":"Santa Fe, New Mexico – Pt. 2","author":"Boon.Vong","date":"July 12, 2025","format":false,"excerpt":"Santa Fe, New Mexico is a lovely town.\u00a0 It's got color, komorebi, and chiaroscuro maxed out for sure.\u00a0 So many contemporary art galleries too, with a few having work that would be at home on the east coast instead of out in the desert. 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