There were a lot of reasons to get away for Christmas this year. We went to Santa Fe, because it seemed like the place we needed to be, and stayed in a hotel that’s across the street from the Cathedral. From our room, we could hear the church bells chime the quarter-hour and, on Christmas Eve, a jubilant 20 minutes of ringing after Mass ended. Somehow, maybe the bells infused into our heads: without even planning to, we walked across the street on Christmas morning and went to Mass. It seemed…right.

And on Christmas night, I took my tripod to the hotel parking garage and made a few images of the night church.

Cathedral Basilica of St. Francis of Assisi
Santa Fe, New Mexico
photographed 12.25.2015