The amazing White Sands National Monument is the main star here, though given far too little time during a transitory visit en route to Mexico`s volcanoes in November 1988. Photographed in a time when grain was even evident on slow-speed films (the old Fujichrome 50).

Shiprock, 7,178 feet

White Sands National Monument,
with San Andres range behind

White Sands National Monument

White Sands, the world`s
largest gypsum deposit

Lenticular clouds at sunset,
White Sands National Monument

A small part of the 4.5 billion tons
of gypsum at White Sands

Shiprock from the south

Carlsbad Caverns

A Mexico-born jazz singer
from Albuquerque

Dunes at White Sands

Shiprock from the north

Sandias near Albuquerque

Sparse grass clumps in
White Sands National Monument

Panorama of Shiprock from the south

Patient husky waiting for owner
in an Albuquerque food store

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