New Mexico Artists for Hire teaches and entertains using art. We teach all groups, all ages, all kinds of art projects. Dip into the culture and landscape of New Mexico using a paintbrush, carving knife, kistka, or a glue stick! Call us and we will work with you to create just the right art experience for private or group experiences.
Artists for Hire listings are specialized
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to the group or individual. If you do not see your anticipated art project listed below, please feel free to call and we will do our best to suit your needs.
Egg Decorating Workshop
Try something new! Egg decorating, or Pysanky, is an art that is over 4,000 years old. Explore this ancient medium and learn to relax while doing something that requires patience and care. Decorate an egg for yourself, a loved one, or as a special wedding gift. This class is also available emphasizing Southwestern symbols. In this class we will respectfully review the symbols of cowboys, cowgirls, Native American and Spanish origin.
Walking Art Tours of Santa Fe
People come from all over the world to see the art in Santa Fe and you may be wondering why would anyone do that? Or how can I learn to appreciate art even more? Bring your curiosity and take a walk with us and discover you had the answers to these questions all your life. Art locations are all over Santa Fe including SITE Santa Fe, Museum of Fine Arts, Georgia O’Keefe Museum, and American Indian Arts Museum depending on preferences.
Art Adventure Under Your Feet
Plunge into the landscape using art and river rafting, mountain biking, or hiking!* From what is under your feet, to the big landscapes that sweep you away, paint, draw, collage or write to express what you see. This non-judgmental art process was developed for all abilities. In the end, you will have wonderful memories to take with you in the form of art and journaling
Native American Rattle-Making
Make a rattle from hollowed gourds and weathered wood found in local rivers. Andy and Marcia will show you how to do this ancient craft from beginning to end. When the rattle-making is complete, all will participate in a sacred Native American chant.
Postcards from Santa Fe
Gather your memories from Santa Fe and send them home to loved ones. Personalize your postcard with a collage of pictures cut from magazines, brochures, ticket stubs, and photos. Address it and let us laminate it. We will then send it through the mail from Santa Fe! Your loved ones will love receiving a customized postcard from you.
Submersive Drawing and Painting
Traveling is a great way to experience the world in a new way. This workshop takes it a step further by allowing participants to envelope themselves into the landscape using creative expression. Through a series of easy drawing and painting exercises, participants learn about the landscape through miniscule and gigantic observation. The final piece focuses on the part of the landscape that has the most creative interest to the participant.
Visioning Workshops
This workshop is ideal for businesses and individuals who would like to take the leap to the next level of success. Our unique visioning technique makes this workshop an uplifting experience with tangible results. We will use simple art materials like collage and writing to bring about your great ideas for the future!
Santa Fe is one of the oldest cities in the United States. You can almost feel and hear sounds and feelings of days gone by. The light in Santa Fe is pure and direct. The colors are rich and saturated. The atmosphere is pristine, clear and dry. At 7,000 feet above sea level, Santa Fe offers challenges to photographers, as well as amazing opportunities to take pictures
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that would make National Geographic envious.
Day one of the “Seeing the Light” workshop will be an introduction to the differences between how we see, as opposed to how we think we see. And how the camera sees. We will discuss how to reduce a scene to its essence and how to photograph the scene for impact. Armed with that knowledge we will walk around historic, picture rich Santa Fe and study possible scenes and how we might see them in a new light. The remains of the day will be spent shooting no more than five masterpieces each.
On the second day we will critique our digital images back at the studio. We’ll discuss those that work and why they work and we’ll talk about how to improve on the rest.
The most important thing that we’ll discuss is how to pre-visualize your image so that when you step up to the camera you’ll be ready to take the picture of your life.
Plan to sign up for the workshop, “Seeing the Light”, in advance and plan to take it early in your stay in Santa Fe. Your pictures will amaze you and your friends when you get home and your friends will want to join you on your next trip to Santa Fe, just to see the amazing city that you photographed.
Comments: I'm prepared to offer this workshop through out the tourist season and will schedule when interest arises.
Time:1:00pm - 7:00pm Sat & 10:00am - 2:00am Sun
Cost:2 day workshops $200.00, $100.00 if in association with Santa Fe Creative Tourism, 1 day $125 or $75 through Santa Fe Creative Tourism,
These are small, in-the-field photography workshops designed for all levels of photographers. These workshops include study on the history, nature, and culture of our subjects - the architecture, landscapes and wildlife of New Mexico. I believe that knowledge of one's subjects improves our capacity to capture it in an expressive form. I strive to help you take your
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photography skills to new levels, which will include in-depth discussions on composition, personal vision, and intentional photography. Great art doesn't just happen. Preparedness, thoughtfulness, and an appreciation of the natural world all come together to enhance one's capacity as an artistic photographer. Other topics to be discussed include exposure, depth of field, techniques for photographing wildlife, and important elements of a black and white image. Time is also devoted to developing the necessary skills to process and create your images in the digital darkroom, and in some workshop you will be able to print archival images of your photographs.
Each workshop has a unique combination of subjects, which may include wild horses, the lesser known missions of Northern New Mexico, Bosque del Apache, Tent Rocks, Chaco Canyon, Ghost Ranch, or the splendors of autumn in the Jemez River Valley and Northern New Mexico. While a focus on your photography will be foremost, it is also important to me that your experience is enjoyable. You can expect to have a few laughs.
When: Workshops are offered throughout the year.
Cost: From $450 - $1200
Offerings change frequently, please let us know the dates you will be visiting and we will let you know what is on the schedule.
Take your photography to the next level!
Photo-Intensive workshops are tailored to the specific desires of a limited
number of participants, working with Don Kirby for a day or more of
concentrated photography. As the only student, or working with a small
number of partners, you define the subjects, techniques, and materials to be
covered during the workshop
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and also the pace of instruction.
An intensive workshop could include field work (composition,
pre-visualization, camera operation), portfolio review, existing negative
review, techniques for better negative exposure and development, the Zone
System, hands-on B/W printing, and unsharp masking. Workshops can be
extended up to five days, allowing full integration of the photographic
process from composition, pre-visualization,, exposure, development,
printing, mounting and finishing the final print.
Working in my home and darkroom-studio in Santa Fe and photographing in
areas around Santa Fe you will have access to state-of-the-art equipment,
materials, and photographic subjects to create the finest possible
photographs.
Offerings change frequently, please let us know the dates you will be visiting and we will let you know what is on the schedule.
When: Studio work anytime. Field work is weather dependent
Time: One to five days
Cost: $450 per day for one person, $675 for two, call for other size groups.
Take a journey to the past at the Southwest’s premier outdoor living history museum!
For Budget Travelers! (FREE to $100)
This historic Spanish colonial ranch served as a stopping place or paraje upon what was the longest, most important trade route in North America – El Camino Real – the Royal Road. Caravans of soldiers, traders and travelers of the past found warmth, welcome and rest among its adobe buildings with plentiful water and grass for their animals. Today Las Golondrinas beckons visitors
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to explore ranch life as lived on the colonial frontier.
Upon its moving waters and quiet ponds are set the mills. Up the hill stands the chapel. The bleat of the goats and sheep, the bray of the burro beckon the farmer. Prominent in the silhouette of the Placita is the defensive tower or torreón. Within the courtyards, ovens, or hornos, bring forth the memorable aroma of homemade bread. The clack of the looms dominates just as it once did hundreds of years ago in many New Mexican villages.
All of these aspects of life on the frontier are explored through the many activities set among the significant structures of this living history museum dedicated to recapturing a past life of beauty and hard work.
Directions:
Las Golondrinas is just south of Santa Fe, off of Interstate 25. From Santa Fe, take exit 276. From Albuquerque, take From Albuquerque, take Exit 276 and turn left at bottom of off ramp.... Follow “Las Golondrinas” signs
Wine Tasting Room and Event Center has Vineyards, Orchards and a European Garden for tours and schedueled events. We also have a meetup group that meets once or twice a month for vine to wine activities, we prune vines, harvest, crush grapes and make wine (Seasonal Call For Details)
Seee http://www.meetup.com/Wine-Tating-Enthusiast/ for schedule
We offer wine
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dinners and cooking classes see our websites for details
We mix education,food, wine and fun.
Santa Fe is the oldest wine growing regions in the US started in 1629 by the Spanish coming through the region. And was one of the biggest producers of wine at the turn of the century.
Offerings change frequently, please let us know the dates you will be visiting and we will let you know what is on the schedule.
Ghost Ranch in Santa Fe is a place where the elements of community, culture, light and dialog form the basis of a special learning process.
Each year Ghost Ranch, with locations in Abiquiu and in Santa Fe, sponsors dozens of exhibits, performances, lectures and other special events.
Ghost Ranch in Abiquiu offers a Georgia O’Keeffe Landscape Tour, hiking trails,
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two internationally known Museums, the new Piedra Lumbre Education and Visitor Center with exhibits featuring the history and culture of northern New Mexico, an art gallery and gift shop. Guests may visit for the day and use hiking trails, walk the labyrinth or enjoy the body work program or they my take part in a full schedule of courses. Conference and meeting spaces with affordable overnight accommodations and meals packages are available. Individual and small group retreats may be held at the new Casa del Sol Retreat Center. Ghost Ranch in Abiquiu has been the location for several movies such as City Slickers, The Missing 3:10 to Yuma and Comanche Moon. It was also featured in the opening scenes of Spielberg's latest film, Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull.
Both campuses provide opportunities for those who value learning and see education as a means for individual and social transformation. We believe that true education engages both head and heart. Our programs combine discussion and hands-on experiences to help participants expand their sense of self and world.
We introduce issues of local and regional significance into our programs in hopes of exposing participants to new cultural, historical and religious ideas. The community of Santa Fe and northern New Mexico help provide resources and atmosphere that makes learning through Ghost Ranch, at either campus, a truly unique experience. Our faculty comes from many disciplines and from many parts of the United States and the world to offer education intentionally grounded in the context of northern New Mexico.
This year celebrate our 297th Santa Fe Fiesta through a pinhole! We will use this unique and joyous time as a catalyst for great imagery and memories.
Join the town as we gather to cast away our troubles and burn "Old Man Gloom" better known as "Will Shuster's Zozobra",
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we won't let him burn before our exclusive shoots!
See our families take the town in "Desfiles de la Gentiles", our local pet parade. Experiencing the camera obscura first hand we will gain an intimate understanding of the way light moves and images are revealed all while enjoying marching bands go by upside down and backwards!
Camp is held at the historic home of Olive Rush, currently the Friends Meeting House. The space is a beautiful adobe home with a rambling back yard situated about half way up Canyon Road.
In this beautiful small group setting we will build our 4x5 super wide pinhole cameras and get a hands on approach to the geometry of photography.
We will expose and develop images with photographic film and paper. Negatives will be digitally scanned for quick viewing while our printing will be done in the alternative process of Cyanotype and Van Dyke.
Enjoy a harvest of wonderful pinhole imagery and green chili and explore the history, art and techniques of this beautiful and intuitive process in its simplest and most rewarding form.
This time of year is the most beautiful in our beloved Santa Fe and we hope that you join camp obscura for adventures in pinhole photography
Acrylic, Pastel and Mixed Media Workshops; All Styles
The natural beauty of Santa Fe and northern New Mexico has long attracted artists and students of art. The clarity of the light, grandeur of the views, and cultural amenities of the region all serve as magnets for the romantic and aesthetic at heart.
Jakki Kouffman specializes in acrylic and pastel painting, and she will share her painting technique and ideas with
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you in this inspiring environment. Join her for weekly classes, five-day workshops, small group critiques or hands-on painting sessions.
Participate in her scheduled five-day outdoor landscape workshops in Abiquiu during May and in Taos during September. Or you may arrange private customized workshops and individual classes. All skill levels are welcome. See Jakki’s website for details.
Jakki Kouffman has been teaching painting for more than 25 years. She is a magna cum laude graduate of Brandeis University, received a Sachar International Fellowship from Brandeis for one year of art study in Italy, and studied at the Art Students League of New York for four years with Daniel Greene. She has taught popular weekly painting classes at Santa Fe Community College Continuing Education for the past 10 years.
Kouffman is a Signature Member of the Plein Air Painters of New Mexico and the Pastel Society of New Mexico, and she is a Master Pastellist with the Pastel Society of America. She has also taught workshops and classes, juried shows and won awards in many venues. View her portfolio, teaching schedules and student testimonials at her website.
Offerings change frequently, please let us know the dates you will be visiting and we will let you know what is on the schedule.
Throughout the history of the world people have found meaning in belonging to the larger Earth body. We must come back home to the Earth by joining with others and the Earth in a community of healing. People of the Earth…Unite!
Cob is a Celtic earth-building material (earth, clay, sand, straw) used traditionally for over a thousand years in the construction of affordable,
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homes, ovens and benches and sculptures. Working together as a community we will construct individual and group healing objects. The earth heals in ways we will never understand.
We can construct an “Earthprayer for World Peace,” a collaborative earthen structure in which we embed prayers, poems and objects. This gesture is an act of peace providing hope and testimony to the power of community healing. Imagine! The Earth building process helps us feel connected to nature once again by using mindfulness, visualizations, humor, ritual, storytelling and drumming.
“It is beautiful all around me” is an essential teaching from the Navaho nation that reminds us that beauty; love, harmony and belonging are essential to life. It is also great fun!!!
Offerings change frequently, please let us know the dates you will be visiting and we will let you know what is on the schedule.
TOUR SANTA FE - A wonderful way to see the "City Different," and to learn about its 400 years of Western culture and history, and over 1000 years of Native American heritage. Visits to major historic landmarks are enhanced by the fact, fiction, lies and legends shared by the guides.
HISPANIC CULTURE - Travel to Chimayo to learn why the Santuario de Chimayo is called
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the "Lourdes of the Southwest." Hear stories of the miraculously healed. Visit weavers and artisans who have revived the techniques of their Spanish ancestors. Journey along the "High Road to Taos" and visit mountain villages tucked into the beautiful Sangre de Cristo Mountains.
NATIVE AMERICAN ANCESTRAL SITES and MODERN PUEBLOS - Tours of historic and pre-historic sites offer fascinating and different looks into the ancient lives of the Native Americans. Bandelier National Monument on the Pajarito Plateau abounds with caves carved into the soft volcanic tufa; and Pecos National Historic Park is one of New Mexico's most interesting Pueblo ruins resting beside the ruins of an old Spanish Mission. A trip to Taos Pueblo and the Taos Plaza area combines the historic with the modern.
HISTORY AND CULTURE - Travel to Museum Hill and revel in spectacular exhibits of international folk art, Indian artifacts, and life in Spanish Colonial New Mexico. A visit to the Palace of the Governors, built in the 17th Century as Spain's seat of government for what is today the American Southwest, has exhibits that chronicle the history of Santa Fe, New Mexico and the region.
Passport New Mexico, Inc. is the premier full-service destination management company for corporate groups, meetings and incentives, event planning and production in Santa Fe and New Mexico.
We specialize in custom tours, unique events, program development and comprehensive planning services.
Offerings change frequently, please let us know the dates you will be visiting and we will let you know what is on the schedule.
Where the wild things are! Nothing represents the southwest like horses and cowboys. Nothing takes your breath away like photographing them in their environment. Running horses, real cowboys that make their life wrangling, and the imagery of Santa Fe and Northern New Mexico as a backdrop, combine to make an outstanding photographic opportunity.
For those interested
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in New Mexico's wild horses, there are several opportunities within easy driving distance from Santa Fe. Safe within their sanctuary, yet free to roam in herds, they live their life as the wild horses they were meant to be. Please inquire regarding pricing and availability.
Amateurs are welcome. Digital and film cameras welcome. Workshops limited to 5 persons.
When: Spring, Summer, & Fall (Early morning thru late afternoon.)
Time: Day Trips
Cost: $300 per person - (Inquire re: Wild Horse option.)
Offerings change frequently, please let us know the dates you will be visiting and we will let you know what is on the schedule.
We provide exciting photographic adventures for small groups of photographers of all skill levels, using either film or digital cameras. Landscape photography in New Mexico, Arizona, and Utah is our focus and specialty as is our classroom-based processing sessions. We (Paul Basile and Amadeus Leitner) developed Sundance Photography Workshops, LLC, as a means to share
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our passion for the art of photography by providing exceptional photographic experiences. In a nutshell, we offer incredible, comprehensive workshops that enhance your skills and open new doors to your creativity.
We have extensive knowledge of photography and its associated processes and will teach you techniques in the field and in the classroom that will enrich your experience, taking you "to the right place at the right time" for the best possible images. ? What’s equally important is that we love teaching and enjoy sharing our enthusiasm for the photographic image and process.
Small Group Sizes + Individual Attention + Supportive Learning Environment = Fun!!!
We limit our group sizes to no more than 10 participants, which means you will be in a small group of like minded photographers, getting the best out of a location and the most help from us. We believe that everyone is creative and capable of capturing fantastic images. Our workshops accommodate the needs of both beginning photographers and shooters with more experience with our individual attention extending to those who feel less confident in their abilities as well as photographers who are more experienced.
We also facilitate learning and fun in a highly collaborative working environment because we believe having a wonderful time is central to the creative process and, while we take photography very seriously, we also laugh…a lot! In our experience, much more is learned from collaboration and conversation among the group than any other learning model. As such, we’ll all collaborate on individual skills improvement in an informal and friendly atmosphere. You are encouraged to identify and communicate your learning goals and to bring your own images with you for you and other participants to discuss and learn from.
In essence, our focus is on providing the opportunities to photograph unique and exciting subjects, and to improve your skills and expand your creativity, enabling you to take and make incredible images and that will further your photographic interests for a lifetime!
Offerings change frequently, please let us know the dates you will be visiting and we will let you know what is on the schedule.
Located south of Santa Fe, this beautiful 35-acre nature preserve hosts a bountiful diversity of plants and wildlife, a shaded nature trail leading to a pond, trails abounding in cactus and gorgeous views, and docents who love to answer questions. The preserve is also home to a number of towering cottonwoods. Leonora Curtin is open May through October, every Saturday morning
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from 9:00am to noon and on Sunday afternoon from 1:00pm to 4:00pm. Guided tours every Saturday at 10am. For information and a schedule of activities visit www.santafebotanicalgarden.org or call 505-471-9103.
Where: Santa Fe, NM Local Santa Fe Book Stores / Amazon
Creative Tourism: A Global Conversation
This book tells how to provide unique creative experiences for travelers worldwide. But what is Creative Tourism, how is it different from other types of tourism, why is it needed, and how do you go about developing it? You'll find answers to these questions and more in this book which is based on and draws from the proceedings of the 2008 Santa Fe & UNESCO International
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Conference on Creative Tourism. Held in Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA, from September 28 to October 2, 2008, this first-of-a-kind conference brought together delegates from 16 countries around the world to engage in a global conversation about how best to leverage the tourism sector for community and economic development. In other words, how can tourism be best organized and practiced to enhance economic benefits to cities, provinces, and countries globally?
* Paperback: 226 pages
* Publisher: Sunstone Press; Full-color First Edition edition (August 1, 2009)
* Language: English
* ISBN-10: 0865347247
* ISBN-13: 978-0865347243
* Product Dimensions: 9.9 x 6.9 x 0.8 inches
* Shipping Weight: 1.2 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
Santa Fe Mountain Adventures offers exceptional destination management and customized vacation experiences for groups and families.
Our innovative adventure programs are designed for parties of four or more seeking any—or all!—of these ingredients in a vacation or meeting:
* Experiences that foster group bonding or teambuilding experiences
* An exhilarating
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combination of adventure, culture and education
* A rejuvenating retreat from the stressful pace of life
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* Opportunities to try new or challenging sports or activities
* Explorations of northern New Mexico and the alluring
southwestern culture
* Dinners and events with a distinctive touch
The Santa Fe Mountain Adventures experience is about playing hard and nourishing your mind, body and soul. All your adventures are seamless—we handle the logistics, transportation and gear so you can focus on what’s really important.
Whether you're traveling with a group of a half-dozen college friends or 250 business colleagues, look to Santa Fe Mountain Adventures to provide a unique active vacation or group program.
Offerings are customized around your needs, so please let us know the dates you will be visiting so we can customize a program for you.
Our two summer stonecarving workshop sessions are both 7 DAY intensive courses. Both Sessions are open to participants of all levels of experience, from beginner to professional. Director of the workshops, MARK SAXE, makes certain that participants of all levels enjoy one-on-one instruction in a supportive atmosphere and an unequalled opportunity to study with the best instructors
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in the field. For more information, please contact Mark Saxe at (505) 579-9179.
We are an easy commute from Santa Fe (about 50 minutes), and attract students from all over the world. In 2010, we will hold our 10th annual summer series.
When: July 12-18, 2010 & August 7-13, 2010
Time: Check Websites For Information
Cost: $850 for seven days including 2 cubic feet of limestone and homemade lunch each day
The Abiquiu Workshops / The Abiquiu Landscape / The Personal Shrine
This is a DAY TRIP from Santa Fe
This is a ONE TIME experience
The Personal Shrine by sculptor and photographer, Walter W. Nelson / writer Douglas J. Preston at the base of Pedernal Peak, beloved mountain to Georgia O'Keeffe.
“As we return to our origins, as we contemplate the dust from which we came from and the dust to which we will return, as we seek an understanding with nature of our place in the universe, we create a shrine
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in the landscape to honor a loved one we have lost.
“Using only natural materials – rocks, grasses, branches, flowers, leaves, colored sands, and perhaps ashes, we will each create our own personal shrine in the natural landscape in a place so remote it will not be known to anyone but you and the other participants in this workshop. The shrine will be created from nature, to return to nature; only your photographs, writings, and drawings will travel away with you.
Walter W. Nelson
Comments: This workshop is a combination sculpture, drawing, writing and photography workshop, by the same two fellows that retraced Coronado Journey in 1989 traveling 1000 miles / 70 days. "Cities Of Gold, Retracing Coronado" by Dougals J. Preston
Here at WILD VISTAS ADVENTURES LLC we know everyone deserves an adventure. Hearken back to a simpler time and enjoy the supreme beauty of rugged New Mexico with us.
Choose a one-day trail ride that ends with a Dutch oven dinner or a three day overnight back-country excursion and return happy and fulfilled.
Let us treat you, your family and friends to a truly wonderful
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outdoor experience. Whether you are a "cowboy" or "cowgirl" coming for the adventure of a lifetime or you want to learn horse packing and back country skills so you can go on to explore the wilderness on your own, you will find what you want with us.
Offerings change frequently, please let us know the dates you will be visiting and we will let you know what is on the schedule.
Birdwatching tours throughout New Mexico-specializing in private ranches
Wings West Birding Tours has been guiding nature enthusiasts in New Mexico for 13 years. Although we specialize in birding, we have alot to share about the plants, animals, geology and human history of NM as well. Our specialty is access to private ranches which, in NM, are often large enough to harbor complete, relatively undisturbed ecosystems. From smaller ranches
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within an hours drive of Santa Fe to Ted Turner's sprawling 250K acre Ladder Ranch in the southwest part of the state, WingsWest brings you to some of the most stunning landscapes in the Land of Enchantment. We operate year round and welcome all levels of birders, from beginner to globe-trotting birder. Our tours range from 4 hours to 11 days. Come see the uncluttered and inspiring vistas of New Mexico while viewing the amazingly diverse flora and fauna of the state.
