The Hilliard Photographics Group: Blog

After finishing up my photo shoot in downtown Albuquerque, I decided to head up into the high country to explore the area.  I headed out historic Route 66 toward Sante Fe. There was still a little residual snow left up in the high country from the day before even though the temperature was in the 50″s.

As I drove further up the road, I discovered a cool old mining town by the name of Madrid.

These photos were taken in and around the town.

This was an old Spanish Mission from the next town up the road.

As I drove further up the road, I spied this vintage Land Rover ( 1950’s or 1960″s, I think) coming down from the hills.

We’ve been back for 2 weeks from our assignments in Nashville, Tennessee, Jacksonville, Tampa, and Fort Lauderdale, Florida.

In Nashville, we photographed the headquarters for a large health care organization and 3 home theaters for a home electronics magazine.

In Jacksonville, we photographed a corporate facility for an international banking company and  In Tampa and Fort Lauderdale we photographed health care facilities.

We put 3500 miles on the motorhome and everything worked great.  My friend, Donny Hackett of Casa Home Cinema met with me at his house and showed me the set and the pilot for his new upcoming TV show, “Motorize This” and we discussed different ways he could customize the motorhome to better meet our needs for our photography and travel comfort.   Donny is a musician  and an amazing designer of home theaters and one of the most creative people I know.  I am hoping one of the networks will pick up his show because I have lots of ideas for projects for him to motorize, and also I will be the show’s official photographer.

Check out the link to the rough cut to the pilot for his show HERE.

Next week we’re off to Arizona with magazine assignments in Tucson and Phoenix!  Tight deadlines and too many miles to drive to these.  I love Southwest Airlines!

I’ll also get to visit my good friends Kusum and Pratap and maybe get to do another hike in Sabino Canyon.