Vince Lupo's Mapping the West

maryland_fotos said:
Many congrats to Vince. Got to meet him and see the prints in person today. Amazing work! And a great guy to chat with. Look forward to what he brings back from the harvests out west. Here he is in deep conversation with a couple about his adventures out west.

VinceLupo by Maryland Photos, on Flickr
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Hope you have something other than coffee available for the patrons, Vince.

It has been my experience that free, cheap wine and plenty of it opens wallets and check books.

🙂
 
Canyongazer said:
Hope you have something other than coffee available for the patrons, Vince.

It has been my experience that free, cheap wine and plenty of it opens wallets and check books.

🙂
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This was the second event that I had for this exhibit. At the opening reception we had plenty of wine as well as delicious food from Lebanese Taverna. Not sure if the attendees came as much for the refreshments as they did for the photos!

This second event was held on the Saturday morning after Thanksgiving - thought I’d try something a bit different than another evening event. This was held at 11am and was presented as an 'informal artist talk'. We had local coffee as well as local donuts, and I had as many people turn up at this event as they did to the opening reception.

Unfortunately no one opened their wallets either event - seemed that neither alcohol nor caffeine was enough to sway these crowds.
 
"Unfortunately, no one opened their wallet."
That's too bad...excellent work.
btw all, follow Vince's link to his Direction One site for some top notch professional photography.
 
Canyongazer said:
"Unfortunately, no one opened their wallet."
That's too bad...excellent work.
btw all, follow Vince's link to his Direction One site for some top notch professional photography.
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Many thanks -- actually all wasn't completely lost. Prior to the show I sold almost $3k worth of photos from this series.


Lloyd2 by Vince Lupo, on Flickr
 
Its amazing how much still possible in NM. I truly admire and enjoy your work Vince! Please bring that show somewhere in the PNW so I can see these prints as they are meant to be seen.

But, we really need to discourage all but the most respectful and responsible visitors to stay the heck away from NM! I often joke when seeing the jillions visitors in the more tourist-y locations, "y'all are welcome to visit, but stay in the established tourist traps and make sure to go home". Sounds rude and provincial, but its just necessary to keep from losing forever our amazing NM -- correction: I meant to say our awful and disgusting NM 😀. Perhaps, when our human population drops to sane levels and people become educated and responsible, we can open up the state to wide visitation..... whenever that happens... 🙄


And "get off my lawn!"


Seriously though. The changes due to more people (both visitors and population growth) have not been overall positive.

Now, Vince your agriculture-inspired images make me wonder if you have checked out the Hatch area, a little north of LC. Those world-famous chiles, ya know. The cotton agriculture along the Pecos River is similar to Dell City, but there is a NM-centric petroleum culture in that part of SE NM that I found interesting. You seem to have already found the "horse culture" in Ruidoso. Cloudcroft still has a lumber mill (I think); an oddity for that part of the world. Reserve is the only town I've visited that seemed to have a statue of Hitler...still there? I don't know. Regardless, the Gila region is worth the exploration. Silver City used to be nice, but lots of "outsiders" moving there to retire (remember folks, its a horrible place to live, so don't get any ideas). Haven't been to that part of NM for a long while.

No matter where you visit. Please keep sharing images. Love them.

Vince Lupo said:
I'll get there someday! Still a lot to do in New Mexico 🙂


Annabelle by Vince Lupo, on Flickr
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I have checked out the Hatch area insofar as I've driven around it. I haven't hooked up with any farmers there -- I think I have my hands full in the Mesilla and Dell City area!

As far as the chiles go, I missed both the green and red chile harvests this year (1 week late for the green, a few weeks early for the red). I hope to be there next year for the red, which is towards the latter part of October if I recall. It can vary depending upon the weather, so I may have to go out at the last minute when I find out when exactly they'll be harvesting the red.

As far as an exhibit in the PNW goes, I did have a showing of Mapping the West at the Leica Store in Bellevue, WA a couple of years ago. Not sure when I’ll be back in that region.


Looking forward to printing this one....


Christian by Vince Lupo, on Flickr
 
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