My favorite 2003 Albuquerque Journal photos.
By way of offering a sort of year-end wrap-up thingy, I've compiled a list of my favorite* photos from the Albuquerque Journal online photo archive. Enjoy!
The Photos
Great photo of Joe Skeen servin' up some grub with a big ole stogie in his mouth.
Important New Mexicans at a Joe Skeen memorial service. See the sour-faced fellow on the left? That's our good pal Senator Pete Domenici!
2003 was a big year for dog-related news stories at the Journal. Here's a photo of some guys rescuing a puppy.
This one, out of any context, is just weird.
Whoah, dude! Awesomest Governor Ever Gary Johnson, like, talks to people and shit.
Another dog. This is Scooby, who was shot in the face.
Does your town's newspaper run full color photos of dogs on the front page as much as the Albuquerque Journal does? I doubt it.
Yet another front-page photo of Scooby.
You thought I was joking about all the dog photos. Well I wasn't.
Awesome photo of Mayor Martin Chavez, smiling, holding a bucket of money.
Creepy photo of Governor Richardson embracing Vincente Fox.
The drought is inconveniencing boaters at Elephant Butte Lake. Boo-hoo!
A guy huggin' on a chicken.
A very un-Journal-like satirical comment on the Val Kilmer flap.
City workers cleaning graffiti, "some of it satanic," from the inside of a tunnel.
This is just a great photo. Route 666 was renamed NM 491.
An un-Journal-like jab at the insanity of Albuquerque's water policies.
This is what the Rio Grande looks like.
Another good photo of Elephant Butte Lake.
Make sure the handshake is visible.
APD, keeping in step with our community.
And finally, a guy symbolically dumping a bucket of water into the Rio Grande. (The annual "Dumping a Bucket of Water Into the Rio Grande Ceremony" symbolically replenishes the diminishing river.)
* By "favorite" I mean that these are photos that easily lend themselves to cheap jokes and snarky commentary.
