2010 February » Light matters

more February photos, and the sun peeks out

Posted by Xavier Mascareñas on February 22, 2010 at 3:23 am

Feb 222010

proof of the sun coming out…

Xavier Mascareñas/The Daily Times; Three-year-old Aaron Youell stares at the sky for a moment Thursday while playing around Farmington Lake's shore with his uncle, Timothy Livingston. The hard-packed dirt around him gives him something to explore and climb.

Xavier Mascareñas/The Daily Times; San Juan County Republican Party Convention volunteer Hope Larimer registers convention participants on the computer while her sister, San Juan County Republican Party treasurer Joy Larimer, far left, jokes with Mayor of Bloomfield Scott Eckstein at the Totah Theatre on Monday.

Xavier Mascareñas/The Daily Times; George Johnston, 79 years old, smiles after playing his 12-string guitar along to 72-year-old Manuel Abeyta's rendition of a Mexican folk song, "All in el Rancho Grande," on Friday at the Bonnie Dallas Senior Center Annex during the Fifty-plus Jam Session.

Xavier Mascareñas/The Daily Times; Russell Blevins, 68, strums rhythm on his guitar Friday during the Fifty-plus Jam Session at the Bonnie Dallas Senior Center Annex.

Xavier Mascareñas/The Daily Times; Piedra Vista mock trial student Logan Hanhardt, with the prosecution, adjust his glasses with flair as he argues a point while cross-examining a witness in a mock trial Sunday in district court Judge John Dean's courtroom.

Xavier Mascareñas/The Daily Times Farmington High School player Hayden Spellbring practices bunting off of a pitching machine while catcher Austin Fieldsted stays ready during a team practice Monday at Ricketts Park.

Xavier Mascareñas/The Daily Times; Doug Scovel, of Utah, pulls in a fish Saturday while fishing in the San Juan River below Navajo Dam. The area where he caught the fish, Texas Hole, was one of the more popular fishing spots within Quality Waters on Saturday.

Xavier Mascareñas/The Daily Times; Gayle Bidwell, of California, steps through a doorway at the Aztec Ruins National Monument on Saturday. Bidwell and boyfriend Jack Spey were visiting in the area, and she wanted to return to the site after her first visit 15 years ago.

Xavier Mascareñas/The Daily Times; Country Club Elementary fifth-grader Alex Shay, 11, thinks carefully before answering District Science Fair judge Jerae Curtis' questions Saturday at the Farmington Civic Center. Shay's project on oil cleanup was produced with classmate Brandon Montoya, 10, of Carrie Sweat's class.

Xavier Mascareñas/The Daily Times; New Generation Plastering employee Joe Archuleta walks past a display of dresses at Silk, A Bridal Boutique after touching-up plaster work on the storefront on College Boulevard on Monday. New Generation Plastering owner Max Archuleta, who is working under property-owner Silver Ridge Development, said "business is picking up, now that the weather is warming up."

Xavier Mascareñas/The Daily Times; New Generation Plastering employee Joe Archuleta does touch-up plaster work on the Silver Ridge Development storefront on College Boulevard on Monday.

the next two photos are more of a public service than anything — i never knew Aztec Ruins National Monument had a Kiva this large, and the wide horizontal photo was used to show the contrast of new developments versus the ruins.

Xavier Mascareñas/The Daily Times; Aztec visitors Gayle Bidwell, left, and boyfriend Jack Spey spend time Saturday inside the Great Kiva, one of possibly fifteen in the area according to literature at Aztec Ruins National Monument.

Xavier Mascareñas/The Daily Times; A playground and newly developed structure in the City of Aztec can be seen past the Aztec Ruins National Monument on Friday.

work from Saturday —

Posted by Xavier Mascareñas on February 15, 2010 at 3:36 am

Feb 152010

Saturday was the definition of community photojournalism. assignments taking me from a local theater audition, to an assisted living facility then two high school gyms. i haven’t had a chance to shoot much sports lately, but i really enjoyed it.

Xavier Mascareñas/The Daily Times; Harvey and Virginia Henry, voted King and Queen of The Bridge Assisted Living Center, hold Valentine’s Day treats as they sit next to each other and tell their story to an attentive room full of other residents and staff at a mid-afternoon party Saturday.

Xavier Mascareñas/The Daily Times; Virginia Henry, 85, dabs a tear of joy Saturday during a party in her and her husband's honor at The Bridge Assisted Living Center.

Xavier Mascareñas/The Daily Times; Stephanie Storhaug, center, performs stretches led by Mark Fischer during a callback audition for Sandstone Productions on Saturday at San Juan College’s Black Box Theatre. City officials considered cutting funding for Sandstone Productions last week to help with Farmington's budget shortfall.

Xavier Mascareñas/The Daily Times; Marla Sitton, of Cortez, Colo., talks on the phone while waiting to audition for Sandstone Productions Saturday at San Juan College. Sitton's daughter, 16-year-old Kylee Sitton, center, braids 15-year-old Ellen Koppenhafer's hair. Geoff Johnson, of Durango, Colo., stands behind them as he also waits to audition.

Xavier Mascareñas/The Daily Times; Aztec High School's Hank Strauss, top, wrestles Leon Jackson of Kirtland Central for the chance to wrestle for third place in the 189-pound weight class on Saturday at PV's invitational.

Xavier Mascareñas/The Daily Times; Nataanii Hathalie of Kirtland Central High School, top, scores on Piedra Vista's Dillon Strunk on Saturday at PV's invitational.

Xavier Mascareñas/The Daily Times; Piedra Vista center Madison Hunt goes up for two points against a barrage of Aztec hands during Saturday night’s game at AHS. PV won 46-30.

on a side note, i need to send my work 16-35mm 2.8 in to Canon for repair. the glass has been slowly slipping inside (or something like that) for awhile now, and images shot with that lens have been getting softer and softer for whatever is not in the dead-center. i shot with my personal 16-35 today to verify, and it’s a whole different world (the photos taken today are for a story later this week). it’s turning into a really expensive “LensBaby” lens! example below: -the guy on far left should not be that blurry-

Xavier Mascareñas/The Daily Times; Eighty-three-year-old resident Don Miller photographs the lucky couple, Harvey and Virginia Henry, crowned King and Queen of The Bridge Assisted Living Center on Saturday.

a quick update since January. icy, icy January.

Posted by Xavier Mascareñas on February 11, 2010 at 2:51 am

Feb 112010

i’m loving the weather — finally heating up, or at least not being freezing@$$cold. now if i can just get my landlord to fix the water-heater!

photo-wise, it’s been pretty productive. i’m hoping to start on an upcoming project that would take me out of Farmington a bit more (that can’t hurt). so, if anyone is in the Shiprock area and wants to say hi, holler. for now, please enjoy the photos.

Xavier Mascareñas/The Daily Times; Bryan Begaye feeds his 8-month-old son, Kyree, who cries for his bottle, while attending the eighth annual young parent conference with Kyree’s mother, Monyca Nelson, on Wednesday at San Juan College.

I liked the kicker on the next photo, it worked with the photo well, i thought. good job copy/designers. it read :

“Altrusitic Warfare”

Xavier Mascareñas/The Daily Times; Sacred Heart Catholic School students and a teacher frantically stuff pennies in a glass jar Friday as a part of the “Penny Wars” fundraiser. Proceeds from the school-wide event, which were tallied at over $1,000 by the afternoon, will go toward helping Cornelio Ramirez with the expenses related to a kidney transplant.

Xavier Mascareñas/The Daily Times; Kirtland residents Josh Snyder, 24, and Ginny Gustin, 27, plow through a muddy puddle in a Polaris RZR all-terrain vehicle at the Dunes Vehicle Recreation Area on Sunday.

Xavier Mascareñas/The Daily Times; Bryant Padilla, 16, holds his adoptive sister, 3-year-old Kylie, while she attempts to tickle him outside Judge Sandra Price’s courtroom Monday after the adoption.

Xavier Mascareñas/The Daily Times; Amanda Padilla hugs her newly-adopted daughter, 3-year-old Kylie, closely while spectators and family members celebrate in the moments following the adoption Monday in District Court Judge Sandra Price’s courtroom. Kylie and her sister, 18-month-old Emily, both Navajo, were adopted into the Padilla’s nine-child family.

Xavier Mascareñas/The Daily Times; Harold Lampton, 89 years old, looks at a 1900 U.S. Census book Friday detailing New Mexico’s population at the turn of the last century. The book once belonged to his father, who referred to it before moving to New Mexico.

Xavier Mascareñas/The Daily Times; Harold Lampton, who was born in 1920 in the hospital which would later be named San Juan Regional Medical Center, is seen in a reflection looking at a family photograph hanging in a hallway in his Farmington home Friday.

Xavier Mascareñas/The Daily Times; A paramedic, far left, attempts to move an injured man from his vehicle, which hit a power pole, onto a stretcher while a Farmington firefighter keeps an eye on the power lines above the scene of a two-car accident Sunday that caused power outages downtown. The wreck at the intersection of Lake Street and Broadway occurred when the man drove through a red light and was hit by a man driving with his children, who were not seriously injured, according to Farmington Police Cpl. Donnie Kee. The man driving alone, not identified by police at the time of the accident, was conscious when he was taken to San Juan Regional Medical Center with injury to his head.

Xavier Mascareñas/The Daily Times; Craig Lozier holds tight to his 3-year-old grandson, Landon Lozier, while Landon's father, Luke, gives them a shove down a hill Thursday at Civitan Park in Farmington, N.M.

Xavier Mascareñas/The Daily Times; Piedra Vista High School guard Cheree Charley hugs teammate Ali Rhodes on Saturday while holding the third place trophy after the Panthers beat Aztec High School in overtime during the Lady Tiger Invitational at AHS.

Xavier Mascareñas/The Daily Times; Nathaniel Brown, an instructional assistant at Esperanza Elementary with the National Indian Youth Council Inc., gets work done Thursday on his laptop at the Farmington Public Library in Farmington, N.M. Area schools were canceled Thursday due to the weather.

Xavier Mascareñas/The Daily Times; Bloomfield High School student Shantell Pinto, 16, enjoys a chilling moment during her lunch break Tuesday under a wall of water, created by melted snow from the previous night's precipitation, draining from the roof of the high school's main building. The snow finally gained ground Thursday, after a week of smaller flurries.

Xavier Mascareñas/The Daily Times; Clear blue skies during much of the day can be seen past a wall of water, created by melted snow from the previous night's precipitation, draining from the roof of the main building at Bloomfield High School on Tuesday.

Xavier Mascareñas/The Daily Times; Mariah Jaramillo, 9, and her Grace Baptist Academy classmate, Jerilyn Lange, 11, center, check out part of the robotics interactive exhibit Thursday at E3 Children’s Museum and Science Center, while education specialist Kelly Hile, assists them.

Xavier Mascareñas/The Daily Times; Guy Shephard, executive director at The Well, looks Monday at the damage done to the window he believes vandals broke and entered through overnight Sunday.

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