Foggy Morning, Moonrise, Rio Grande Cloud, Abiquiu Photo Tour.
From fog in the Arroyo Hondo Valley to a full moon rise over Taos Mountain. From a photo tour/workshop in Abiquiu and the Rio Chama Valley to a large cloud over the Taos Valley, Taos Mountain, and the Rio Grande Gorge.
It’s been all go for the last month with tours. I have a few more tours coming up and then a short break for a couple of days following up on some personal work. I’m grateful for the photography tours and workshops and the wonderful photography clients I get to work with.
In the first two photos, I got up and out early to shoot the moon setting. Well, it set, right into a big bank of fog. So I shot the fog lifting in the Arroyo Hondo Valley just south of where I intended to catch the moon. Fog is a rare occurrence in this area, but we’ve had so much rain recently that it was only a matter of time until it filled the valleys.
![Foggy Morning, Moonrise, Rio Grande Cloud, Abiquiu Photo Tour. Fog in Arroyo Hondo, New Mexico](https://geraintsmith.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/arroyo_hondo_morning_fog_tree_3986_3987.jpg)
In the following shot, I sat out on the deck waiting for the nearly full moon to appear from behind Taos Mountain. When it did, it had a pinkish hue to it from the fire smoke in the atmosphere. It was still beautiful nonetheless.
![Foggy Morning, Moonrise, Rio Grande Cloud, Abiquiu Photo Tour. Full Moon rise Taos Mountain](https://geraintsmith.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/full_moon_rise_taos_mountain_SC_3925.jpg)
The cloud below formed very quickly and filled the sky from Taos to the west of the Rio Grande Gorge. I had to shoot three frames and stitch them together to capture the immense size. I liked the corkscrew-looking form. I’d not seen one like it before.
![Foggy Morning, Moonrise, Rio Grande Cloud, Abiquiu Photo Tour. Rio Grande Gorge](https://geraintsmith.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/rio_grande_gorge_taos_mountain_cloud_3864_3866.jpg)
Lastly, a fun panorama shot at the Rio Chama overlook in Abiquiu with William, a client on a cross-country road trip who stopped in Taos and joined me for a three-day photo tour.
![Foggy Morning, Moonrise, Rio Grande Cloud, Abiquiu Photo Tour. Abiquiu, Rio Chama](https://geraintsmith.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/rio_chama_pano_abiquiu_WG.jpg)
As always, thank you for looking. G