Mike,
A couple of weeks ago, Mrs Rakkity & I got back from a circumnavigation of northern New Mexico and southern Colorado.  One of the nicest towns we spent time in was Santa Fe which is so full of street art, art galleries, random art, and “revival adobe”, my little camera nearly caught fire. I have boiled and distilled my snapshots down to a few. These are not the not necessarily the best because I selected them as personal favorites, each with its own back story.
After Santa Fe, we hiked through Aztec Ruins and Canyons of the Ancients, for which I also have albums, and I’ll pass them on in due time.
Ed
el Kib
Some beautiful exposures, there, rakkity! Way to handle light & shadow! And ya gotta love that blue, blue sky … It all takes me right back — I recognize all but a few of your shots (I think your Santa Fe alley leads right to La Casa Sena, where we had a most memorable dinner a trip or two ago), but where is the terracing ceiling of gnarly golden wood and plastered verticals with the hanging lantern … ?
Thanks for the mental vacation — I can all but smell it!
'nifer
I’ve never been, but that region is calling me, and louder now thanks to rakk. My favorite is the backyard couch. There is a fine line between looking lazy and looking relaxed. This couch looks dangerously close to relaxing to death. Rakk, please explain the buffalo eye. Why is there a plastic spoon in front of it?
michael
Now I’m really confused.
adam
I’m thinking the clear, reflective shininess of the spoon made for a more life-like reflection — kinda clever, in a don’t-get-too-close kinda way … !
jennifer
I wouldn’t have thought about it without ‘nifer’s and adam’s comments, but now I’m thinking the buffalo was entirely constructed of found objects, or something like that — am I right?
Do you not particularly like Georgia O’Keefe, or was there nothing both worthy of photographing and legal to photograph there? (That museum was one of our highlights during our trip taking in Santa Fe.)
Jen
Maybe he had contacts on.
rakkity
I can only guess the artist’s intention for the buffalo — the spoon is almost invisible (as spoon) from a distance, but the reflecting eye certainly looks eye-like, and more so because of the spoon. And yes, the entire creation is made out of non-traditional “found” materials.
The gnarly ceiling is on a building about 1 block north of the plaza. It was not a particularly memorable building, but the ceiling in a long portico on the east side is very nice.
In 3 different galleries I really wanted to photograph a few of O’Keefe’s paintings, but the guards seemed to turn their eyes on me every time I thought about it. But here is a link with a representative sample of GOK’s art.