This is just outside of Las Cruces, New Mexico. We had a last minute trip pop up this week so I brought the kite stuff to see what we could get. This is a scenic overlook off the eastbound lane of I10. I'm not sure what the story is with the sculpture but its made of garbage.
We do some crazy things sometimes in the pursuit of pictures. Oddly though, snakes weren't the biggest concern I had going into shooting this pictures. Rather it was the 21mph winds that had me nervous. We've got a kite and kite line that can handle that much wind and more. But when the winds are that strong, you just never know what's going to happen. So the thought of damaging any of the equipment so far from home and on our first day of the trip was heavy on my mind. If the camera rig ended up lost or damaged, we'd be out of commission for the rest of the trip.
Luckily everything performed perfectly. Really perfectly in fact. We used the Flowform 8 with two 16' fuzzy tails for stability and 200lb kite line both for extra insurance in such powerful winds and also just to add extra weight to the kite in order to help stabilize it a bit. And even still, it had absolutely no trouble lifting the camera rig and climbing with it.
As would be expected, the camera rig was moving around quite a bit so we ended up with lots of blurry shots. But we did manage to some decent shots of the subject so this mission will go down as a success.
We'll be here for a few more days so hopefully we'll have the opportunity to grab some more shots of this unique and beautiful place.
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