Albuquerque

I was in Albuquerque last week for business but luckily I had an opportunity to go out and take some pictures. I went to the Old Town section, which is a historic native-american area filled with tourist trap shops, but was pretty interesting architecturally.

Unfortunately I went there at night, thinking I could wing it without a Tripod by using a high ISO. Sadly my camera isn't quite boss enough to handle that. All of those photos except one were pretty much a waste...

(http://www.flickr.com/photos/myotomy/3080667204/sizes/l/)

The next morning I had the opportunity to drive to the top of Sandia peak, the 10,600 ft. mountain overlooking the town of Albuquerque, not to mention a radius of about 300 miles. If you think Illinois is flat, wait til you see the Southwest:

(http://www.flickr.com/photos/myotomy/3079833823/sizes/l/)

You could see anywhere from 180-300 miles from the crest. It was pretty unreal. It would have been a little bit cooler if everything wasn't so...brown, but oh well. On top of the mountain was a large compound housing lots of antennas for TV, Radio, you name it. Pretty neat:

(http://www.flickr.com/photos/myotomy/3080672002/sizes/l/)

All in all it was a fun trip and I can't wait until I go to Seattle some time in the next 30 days.