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Wooden Stairs
Back in August, I read this this post, by David Scott Moyer, about his visit to Spanish mission churches in northern Mexico. There were a lot of wonderful images, but the one that somehow caught my attention was one of wooden stairs in a bell tower. I thought about those stairs and that image for several days after I first saw it; the idea that each step was made from a single piece of wood intrigued me.
And, then, not much later, I was at a Spanish mission in San Antonio, Texas, and spotted a set of similar stairs. I don’t think I’d have even noticed them at all if I hadn’t seen David’s post – the power of blogging, I guess.
(I still like David’s photo better. In case you were wondering. My shot was a bit constrained by a gate blocking access.)
Mission San José
San Antonio, Texas
photographed 9.6.2015
The divine (and everything else)
The juxtaposition caught my attention. The old chapel on the one side and all the stuff of regular life on the other – the signs, the garage, the dirt parking lot, the electric meter.
Chimayó, New Mexico
photographed 3.24.2015
(image made during Santa Fe Photographic Workshops class with Sam Abell)
Bath
I really liked the faucet in this tub – those are pretty nice curves!
However, what you’re seeing here is the water at full force; it would take ages to fill the tub for a bath, and I’d be out of the mood by then.
Santa Fe, New Mexico
photographed 3.23.2015
There have been many requests
This place, Chimayó, is considered a sacred and healing location; as many as 300,000 pilgrims each year journey to this remote place seeking the healing properties of the dirt from a small room off the main church.
Outside of the church, there are various shrines like this one, all crowded with crosses, candles, and hopes.
Chimayó, New Mexico
photographed 3.24.2015
(image made during Santa Fe Photographic Workshops class with Sam Abell)
Estab. 1751
This church was founded in 1751; it is considered one of the best examples of Colonial Spanish architecture in New Mexico. Some of the adobe walls, which are re-mudded periodically, are as much as six feet thick.
Las Trampas, New Mexico
photographed 3.24.2015
(image made during Santa Fe Photographic Workshops class with Sam Abell)
