Abandoned home in Taiban, NM. Most of the town has crumbled and disappeared, although there is still a functioning U.S. Post Office on the main highway, U.S. 60/84.
Downtown Taiban, NM
Tag Archives: Spanish Colonial architecture
San Juan Hotel
Historic San Juan Hotel in downtown San Juan, TX. It was home to fabled Texas lawman Tom Mayfield during the last years of his life. The hotel opened in 1920 and is reputed to be haunted by the ghost of a prostitute murdered on the second floor.
La Lomita Mission
Elegant Hacienda
Once upon a time it must have been a beautiful home.
Church in the Clouds
This began as a photograph of the church at Mission San Juan Capistrano in San Antonio, TX. I converted the photo to a crosshatch sketch, added a mirrored image of cirrus clouds from my library of cloud photos, a blue background and some white highlights to create a church floating in a surreal sky. It is both more and less of the original image, as well as more and less of the image in my mind. I built the final illustration on 5 or 6 layers in Photoshop CS5 in about an hour or so.
It’s Just a Doorway
It’s just a doorway, now
It was once a portal
to a beautiful little church
where Hispanic natives
attended every Sunday.
Now, the church is
across the street
A huge modern building
with a tall brick bell tower;
no bells, just megawatt speakers
Mission San Jose
Cloisters and unfinished residences at Mission San Jose in San Antonio, Texas.
Day-To-Day Photography 