Santa Rosa de Lima Church Ruins, Abiquiu, New Mexico
Santa Rosa de Lima was an early 18th-century Spanish settlement in the Rio Chama Valley, near the present-day town of Abiquiú in Rio Arriba County, 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 1734, 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.
I pass by the ruins often ad have developed a seres of photos during all the seasons and have photographed them with both digital and film cameras as well as both Widelx and Horizont panoramic cameras.
I pass by the ruins often ad have developed a seres of photos during all the seasons and have photographed them with both digital and film cameras as well as both Widelx and Horizont panoramic cameras.
Ruins taken with infrared film
Photographed with a Ruissian-built Horizont panoramic camera (above and below)
Ruins moonlit with pinhole camera
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