We Love Our Holga

More honeymoon pics! But these were taken with our Holga. We bought it at a camera shop in downtown Santa Fe and between it and our Lomo, we shot a few rolls ^_^ We took some at Whiterock and downtown and all over really.

Have a look!



















It was so nice to hear the click and advance the film manually. There's something so fun about finishing a roll. I mean I'll still instagram all day long, but I think everyone should have an appreciation for manual cameras.

Bandelier National Monument

More Honeymoon pictures! We had a lot going on that week, so I've still got a lot to share. Right after we went to the Whiterock Overlook, we took a shuttle up to Bandelier National Monument. These are those awesome cave dwellings that you see in text books and never think you'll actually visit. These homes are just incredible. Just sitting in these small spaces and looking out at a view that people actually called home is breath-taking.

Here...have some photos!

These were ruins of a communal space where the tribe would have gatherings

Climbing in! Instagram pic from Andy's feed ^_^

Cave paintings! Native Americans were into chevrons before the internet :P

The valley.

Some homes had multiple levels.

Above the ruins.

Ugh. So beautiful!

This is the room where they would do their weaving! The wood is new, but the holes in the floor are original. See Andy for scale.

The long house. It the holes actually show that it was 2 or 3 floors tall.

The Big Kiva.

I feel so lucky that I got to experience this place. It was such a special visit for us!

<3

Whiterock Overlook

On our honeymoon to Santa Fe, we took some time to visit a special scenic overlook called Whiterock Overlook. We stopped off here on the way to Bandolier, which I'll share next week. But the overlook was just so amazingly breath-taking. I could've stayed there all day. And I'm convinced that sunrise and sunset there would be so beautiful I'd just throw up everywhere.

This waterfall and stream were so gorgeous. It was so quiet you could hear the water falling and the river babbling.

A closer shot.

The other side of this cactus is oblivion! I made poor Andy so nervous by playing at the edge.


But he stood pretty close, too ^_^


I love cacti! Succulents are my favorites.


The Rio Grand. We could hear the rushing river! I just can't accurately describe how amazing it is to hear that and be surrounded by such natural beauty.




We bought a Holga at a small photo shop on the plaza and had so much taking pictures! I'll share what we got developed from it and the Lomo we brought along ^_^

Newlyweds!


That's the very edge of the mesa.

See that railing? See that shear drop? Yeah. I'm a badass.


Getting out there on the edge of a mesa was no problem. But turning around and have my perif just be a straight drop more than 100 feet down was...disconcerting. But I was on the edge of an effing mesa!!! So awesome.

This last one is from Andy's instagram ^_^

I still can't get over how gorgeous it was there. So peaceful and quiet, with a cool breeze blowing and the sound of the river rushing and the waterfall quietly rolling over the rocks behind us. Just phenomenal.

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