San Rafael Church "Illumination"

La Cueva, NM Built In 1865
This award winning photo is featured in Topaz Labs Black and White Gallery. It was shown in the First New Mexico Shades of Grey Show in 2016!

"Reflections In My Mind"

San Rafael Church Le Cueva, New Mexico

Santa Rosa De Lima. Abiquiu, New Mexico

Santa Rosa de Lima was an early 18th-century Spanish settlement in the Rio Charma valley, near the present-day town of Abiquiu. New Mexico By the 1730s Spanish settlers were moving into the Chama River valley, and by 1744 at least 20 families were living in the present-day Abiquiú area, where they founded the Plaza de Santa Rosa de Lima. The church was built around 1744, and was in use until the 1930s. Repeated raids by Utes and Comanches caused the settlement to be abandoned in 1747. In 1750, the Spanish founded a new settlement at the present site of Abiquiú, about a mile from Santa Rosa de Lima.
Today the site of Santa Rosa de Lima is a ghost Town, with substantial adobe ruins of the church, and mounds where the settlers' adobe houses stood.

Moon Rise Cuchillo, New Mexico

San Jose Church built in 1907!

Old Church Taiban, New Mexico

In 1880 Pat Garret captured Bill the Kid in this Town!
This photo was featured by my good friends at Topaz Labs on their Facebook and Blog Pages.
Check out the story here on NM Ghost Towns:
http://blog.topazlabs.com/going-going-gone-new-mexicos-vanishing-ghost-towns/

There are over 400 ghost towns in New Mexico, some of which not only died, but vanished. You can still find a few hardy soles that live in some of them, as well as some old buildings still standing. Starting the late1800s, each had a moment of glory that blazed and died like a sudden flame. Many were mining towns, where men lusted after the earth’s riches – gold, silver, turquoise, copper, lead and coal. A few were farming communities that flourished for a time and mysteriously fell silent. Some were water stops for the steam locomotives, their usefulness gone with the advent of the modern diesel engines that ride the rails today. Some were stops on the fabled Route 66.

This photo was also featured in my Topaz Blog!

Kelly, NM POP 3!

Old Mine Kelly (Pop 3) , New Mexico

Stop and Read!

"Hanging Tree"

Chloride , New Mexico

General Store Chloride, New Mexico

General Store Chloride, New Mexico

Super Service

Yeso, New Mexico

Old School House

Monticello, New Mexico

House for sale

Cuchillo, New Mexico

Let There Be Light

San Acacia, New Mexico
Shown in the New Mexico Art League's Black and White Show, May 2017 And the second Annual "Shades of Gray" Show 2017 at NM Expo

The Old Wooden Cross

San Acacia, New Mexico

New Mexico Church

Mission Vista Church , New Mexico

Penitente Mordada

Abiquiu, New Mexico

"Turquoise Dreams"

Golden , New Mexico

Golden, New Mexico circa 1980's

"I Went Through the Desert"

Saguaro National Park, Arizona

Yeso, New Mexico

Budville Trading Post Rt 66 ,New Mexico

Last Gas 2

On the Road to Toas NM

Last Chance to get gas! Embudo, New Mexico

Photo Taken 2006

Last Gas 2017

Eleven Years later!

Last Gas in New Mexico!

Featured in Topaz Labs Simplify Gallery

"Damn Fine Stuff" Embudo, New Mexico

Embudo, New Mexico

Glowing "Shiny Stuff"! Inside Last Gas !

"It's a Duzy" Embudo, New Mexico

Rt 66 Hackberry,Arizona

Rt 66 Hackberry, Az

Old Truck

Mora, New Mexico

The Buckhorn

Pinos Altos, NM

Old Car

Magdalena, New Mexico

Old Gas Station NM

Last Chance

Chrama, New Mexico

The Mill at Salman Ranch

Le Cueva, NM

Cars

Bodie California

Old House and Car

Bodie California