When I was a kid first getting into photography, someone gave me a stack of Popular Photography magazines that were a couple months old at the time. This was in the mid 80’s when I was about 11-12 years old. One of them had, on the cover, a photo of a carnival ride called The Zipper. It was shot at night, with the ride in motion, using a long time exposure so that the lit-up sign was sharp and the ride formed a round blur of light behind the sign. I thought that was the coolest picture I’d ever seen. All the years after that I never saw a real Zipper ride, until I went to Santa Fe. The zipper has come to town a couple times with different carnival companies. These photographs were the first I took of the Zipper, and are from the carnival at the Rodeo de Santa Fe 2007 back in June.
This was made as the sun was setting and a storm was approaching. It began to rain soon after I made this exposure.
This was done a little earlier than the first photograph in the post before it got too dark.
This is my favorite. The lit up ride in the dark glows beautifully and the little boy waiting his turn to ride is so excited! This was made the day after the first two were made.
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On the way back to Indiana after I left Santa Fe for the last time I stopped in Louisville to see Dee Dee and make some beautiful portraits of her along the riverfront. This is the second of them that I’ve finished to print. She has been excited to see this one because I told her how cute it was!
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Here’s a few more from the carnival held during the Rodeo de Santa Fe back in June. The first two were shot at night, my favorite time to photograph carnivals. I love the motion in the Tilt-A-Whirl and the forelorn look of the nearly abandoned game booths at night. Few people played the games or rode the rides due to the unconcionably high prices charged. Most of the rides cost $4 per person per ride!
The Tilt-A-Whirl Ride
The Goofy Golf Game
The Roll-A-Ball Game. Notice the little kid pushing a stroller on the right edge of the image?
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This is the ticket booth at the Rodeo de Santa Fe Carnival just after closing time.
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This photo booth was itself photographed during the carnival at the Rodeo de Santa Fe 2007. I just redesigned the section of my website where I had photographs from the annual Fiesta in Santa Fe to include all of the carnival photographs that I had scattered through my website. This photo was made back in June and I have many more from the Rodeo carnival to add soon!
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I found this church while walking down Clay Street in Louisville, Kentucky last month. I thought it was a funny name for a church in this part of the world. Maybe my history is wrong, but my guess would be that the ORIGINAL church was probably in Jerusalem, Israel.
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This beautiful cloud hanging over a wheat field was seen from the same place that I photographed the windmill farm in Oldham County, Texas. The windmills are not visible in this image, but they are to the left of the scene.
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I found this building while walking down Shelby Street just east of downtown in Louisville, Kentucky last month. I was intrigued by the door on that old run-down building needing four locks. Wonder what was so valuable inside?
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Christina was a good friend in Santa Fe. I photographed her before I left to go back to Indiana.
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Here’s another photo of the windmill farm near the town of Vega in Oldham County, Texas that I photographed when I was taking my son back to his mother after his trip to Santa Fe this summer.
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