Western Portraits Workshop, Santa Fe, New Mexico, - July 21, 2025

Western Portraits Workshop, Santa Fe, New Mexico, - July 21, 2025

Western Portraits Workshop, Santa Fe, New Mexico, - July 21, 2025

Off to another workshop, this time in Santa Fe, New Mexico. I usually stay in Holbrook, Arizona and Wigwam Motel, this time I decided to try something different. Winslow, Arizona was my stop over point on this drive. I decided to stay in the La Posada Hotel, another Route 66 must see. This hotel is in the old Winslow train depot/Harvey house, the train still runs past here and you can board from here as well.

The subject for this workshop is Portraits of the West. We visited several working ranches, a horse rescue, a movie studio lot and a local rodeo. The movie studio we visited was used in the movie "3:10 to Yuma" that I actually caught on TV after I got home from the workshop. There are a couple photos of the TV screen included here that show a town view and some scenes inside the hotel that was the best building we were allowed inside.

After the workshop wrapped up, and before driving home, I visited the Zaplin Lampert Gallery, to see some photographs from Edward Curtis. These were glass plates with a gold background which gave them an interesting look. From there I headed home with a stop in Holbrook at the Wigwam hotel.