Mountain Peaks

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Painted from a photograph by Joe Price

The photograph this was painted from was taken in Alberta, Canada, but the feeling of the picture is the same as when you go over Raton Pass from New Mexico into Colorado. The mountain peaks seem to stretch forever and the closer areas are so green - more green than I've made them here.

Hunter Fishing

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Painted from a photograph by Shannon Cordova

This lake is typical of New Mexico in that the ground next to the water does not have green plants growing, except a few weeds that don't use so much water, and they are away from the edge. Hunter is the boy with the fishing pole. My skills are not honed enough to make him recognizable, but it was fun to try. My husband was surprised that the photograph had what looks like clay at the water's edge.

Morraine Lake/Banff

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If you have not been to the Banff area of Alberta, Canada, please make the effort to go. I did not realize there was such a beautiful place on earth and it isn't just this lake. Beauty is everywhere. The water is glacier water and is really this color, and in some areas it's a pale green or a more intense blue. It's impossible to take a photograph of this lake without getting evergreen trees in the foreground, but every time I started to put in the trees my husband would say, "Please don't put anything in the foreground." It's also impossible to get all of the peaks at Morraine Lake in the same photograph though I did try.