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New Mexico Photographs by Christopher Crawford

I moved to Santa Fe, New Mexico in June, 2006 and went back to Indiana in October, 2007. Santa Fe is one of the great centers of fine art photography in America and New Mexico is a fascinating place to photograph. I have gradually been exploring northern New Mexico and these photographs are the result of my journeys.

112 Photographs

 

Landscape scene in Santa Fe County, New Mexico showing Waldo Canyon Road stretching out into the distance toward the Ortiz Mountains. Made atop LaBajada Mesa under a deep blue sky with low hanging clouds above the mountain peaks.

 

Cerrillios Hills on the Turquoise Trail in Santa Fe County, New Mexico. Dramatic Sky and clouds over the mountains at sunset.

 

Cerrillios Hills on the Turquoise Trail in Santa Fe County, New Mexico. Dramatic Sky and clouds over the mountains at sunset.

 

The What Not Shop, an antique store in Cerrillos, New Mexico. The store is housed in an old west saloon building with a porch and false front. An old cigarette machine sits on the porch and a pay phone stands in front of the store.

 

The post office in the tiny village of Glorieta in the Sangre de Christo mountains southeast of Santa Fe. The post office sits next to the Santa Fe Railroad tracks and was originally the town's train depot.

 

Abandoned theater box office in Estancia, New Mexico in Torrance County. A for sale sign hangs in the window of the stucco building.

 

Spanish Baptist Church in Santa Fe, New Mexico. Built in typical Santa Fe pueblo revival style. The church looks very plain and austere. A wheelchair ramp leads to the entrance.

 

A landscape scene with a lonely house on the plains south of Santa Fe, New Mexico on the historic Turquoise Trail with dramatic blue sky and clouds.

 

A ranch road along the historic Turquoise Trail in Santa Fe County, New Mexico. The Ortiz Mountains can be seen in the hazy background under a big sky.

 

Interior of the What Not Shop, an antique store in Cerrillos, New Mexico. The shop looks like an old west store with an old fashioned tin ceiling and stained glass in the front windows. The old wooden display cases are overfilled with antiques, rocks, and junk. A statue of a nineteenth century boxer stands atop a display case behind the counter. Indian jewelry and pictures of the Virgin Mary hang behind the counter.

 

An old beat up chair sitting in the tall grass next to the Catholic church in Tecolote, New Mexico. The pink adobe church had the dates of construction etched in the plaster.

 

Metal crucifix or cross outside the catholic church in Tecolote, New Mexico in San Miguel County. The cross stands in the churchyard.

 

Bell and crucifix outside the Catholic church in the small town of Tecolote, New Mexico. The bell hangs from a pole in the churchyard and the cross is tied to another pole.

 

Frankies Coffeeshop, an abandoned restaurant in Pecos, New Mexico. The building is adobe and has a cup of steaming coffee painted on the fascade above the windows.

 

Abandoned Guartel de la Merced (chapel of mercy) Church in Tecolote, New Mexico next to the Catholic Church. The building is adobe painted dark brown with a tin roof.

 

Boarded up window on the steeple tower of the old adobe church in Lamy, New Mexico. The plaster is cracked and falling away to reveal the adobe bricks that the church was built with.

 

Steeple tower on the old adobe church in Lamy, New Mexico. The tower is topped with a white dome and a large crucifix or cross. Pigeons fly away from their perch on the dome and cross.

 

Owl's Liquors on Saint Francis Drive in Santa Fe, New Mexico. The name Paul Pacheco Senior is painted in spanish gothic lettering on the front of the pueblo style adobe building, and a shopping cart full of carboard boxes is wedged behind a cement pedestal in front of the store.

 

Ruins of an old adobe house in the small town of Galisteo, New Mexico. The photo shows the weathered wood frame of a window and a broken adobe wall. The sky is a deep blue.

 

Ruins of an old adobe house in the small town of Galisteo, New Mexico. The photo shows the weathered wood frame of a window and a broken adobe wall.

 

Odd Fellows Hall on Cerrillos Road in Santa Fe, New Mexico. Baca Street Yoga is in the same building. Shot in November 2006 on the first day of snow.

 

An old sofa in a front yard in Santa Fe, New Mexico is covered in two feet of snow after a blizzard in December, 2006.

 

A foggy afternoon landscape scene right before a storm along Waldo Canyon Road near Interstate 25 in Santa Fe County, New Mexico. The view on the photograph is looking southwest off the edge of LaBajada Mesa. There is snow on the ground and the sky is dark and foogy with low hanging storm clouds.

 

Old cigarette machine on the front porch of the What Not Shop in Cerrillos, New Mexico

 

Sunset along US-285 in Chaves County north of Roswell, New Mexico. Mesas and mountains can be seen in the distance under a dramatic sky.

 

Abandoned restaurant in Estancia, New Mexico. The Star Submarine Sandwich Shop is an old whitewashed brick storefront building with an ornate paneled door.

 

Frankies Coffeeshop, an abandoned restaurant in Pecos, New Mexico. The building is adobe and has a cup of steaming coffee painted on the fascade above the windows.

 

One of the old weathered wood crucifixes or crosses on the top of the stone wall around the cemetery at Galisteo, New Mexico

 

A view of the Ortiz Mountains from Waldo Canyon Road in rural Santa Fe County, New Mexico south of I-25. Photographed in winter on a foggy day. Snow sits along the road in patches and it covers the distant mountains.

 

Sunset over LaBajada Mesa as seen from Waldo Canyon Road on top of the cliff. Rays of light stream through the clouds with the Jemez Mountains in the background.

 

Abandoned Route 66 era tire shop in the small town of Tucamcari, New Mexico. The building is white adobe with metal grates over the windows. An old Route 66 sign sits in a window.

 

A stick hangs from a barbed wire fence along Waldo Canyon Road on LaBajada Mesa in Santa Fe County, New Mexico. A no trespassing sign hangs on one of the wooden fenceposts and beautiful clouds dominate the sky.

 

Storm clouds form over the Sandia Mountains in New Mexico. Seen from Waldo Canyon Road on LaBajada mesa in Santa Fe County

 

A No Trespassing sign painted on an old tire hanging on a barbed wire fencepost along Waldo Canyon Road in Santa Fe County, New Mexico on top of LaBajada Mesa. Photographed on an overcast winter day.

 

A landscape seen from the side of Interstate 40 in Quay County, New Mexico just east of the town of Bard. Dramatic blue sky and clouds along old Route 66.

 

The Sandia Mountains under gathering storm clouds. Seen from the top of LaBajada Mesa looking over the south edge of the mesa. The mountains are shrouded in dark haze.

Lanscape photograph of the Sandia Mountains seen from atop LaBajada Mesa in New Mexico. The mountains are enveloped in haze under a blue sky with few clouds.

 

Cerrillios Hills on the Turquoise Trail in Santa Fe County, New Mexico. Dramatic Sky and clouds over the mountains at sunset.

 

Cerrillios Hills on the Turquoise Trail in Santa Fe County, New Mexico. Dramatic Sky and clouds over the mountains at sunset.

 

Interior of the post office in the tiny town of Glorieta, New Mexico. The wall is covered in old fashioned post office boxes and there is a service window that was closed.

 

Interior of the post office in the tiny town of Glorieta, New Mexico. The wall is covered in old fashioned post office boxes and there is a service window that was closed.

 

Abandoned bar or tavern in Pecos, New Mexico. The building is a white cement building with decorative concrete bricks in the entrance.

 

Front door of an abandoned Adobe House in Pecos, New Mexico in San Miguel County. The plaster and adobe are falling away from the front of the ruined building.

 

Santa Fe Photo Co-Op Camera Store on Cerillos Road in Santa Fe, New Mexico. An American flag hangs in the window on the door and a sign with a camera and large bull horns hangs above the door. The other signs advertise used cameras and video transfer services.

 

Interior of the What Not Shop, an antique store in Cerrillos, New Mexico. The shop looks like an old west store with an old fashioned tin ceiling and stained glass in the front windows. The old wooden display cases are overfilled with antiques, rocks, and junk. A statue of a nineteenth century boxer stands atop a display case behind the counter. Indian jewelry hangs behind the counter.

 

Abandoned Moore's Appliances store in Estancia, New Mexico. Abandoned main street storefront. The building is sandstone with wood paneling over the windows. Other abandoned stores site on both sides of it and a tall light pole stands to the right.

 

Landscape scene in Santa Fe County, New Mexico showing Waldo Canyon Road stretching out into the distance toward the Ortiz Mountains. Made atop LaBajada Mesa under a deep blue sky with low hanging clouds above the mountain peaks. The Cerrillos hills are visible on the left side of the road.

 

Old adobe Catholic church in the small town of San Juan, New Mexico with seperate bell tower next to it and a statue of the Virgin Mary set into a grotto in the outside wall. The church has a tin roof and old paneled wood doors. A small ladder allows the sexton to climb into the bell tower.

 

The window and sign on the railroad depot at Lamy, New Mexico. Lamy is a town founded by the Santa Fe Railroad, and the depot is now used by Amtrak. The building is adobe with a Spanish style tile roof.

 

Old plastic chair behind the catholic church in Tecolote, New Mexico surrounded by tall weeds. The chair sits in front of the stone wall around the churchyard.

 

The dome on the steeple tower of the old adobe church in Lamy, New Mexico. Pigeons roost on the cross atop the steeple.

 

Abandoned adobe house on the hill overlooking the small town of Tecolote, New Mexico showing a window that has been boarded up, and an evergreen bush.

 

Abandoned cinderblock house in Tecolote, New Mexico in San Miguel County. The house has a tin roof and the yard is overgrown with weeds. The front door is an old paneled door.

 

Old abandoned adobe house on the hill overlooking the small town of Tecolote, New Mexico. An empty alcove that once held a statue of the virgin Mary stands next to the house.

 

The lonely road from Stanley to Galisteo in Santa Fe County, New Mexico with the Sangre de Christo mountains in the background. A sign along the road tells the distances to Galisteo, Lamy, and Santa Fe. New Mexico highway 41 looking north.

 

The Galisteo Basin in Santa Fe County, New Mexico. The Ortiz Mountains and the Cerrillos Hills are visible in the background.

 

The lonely road from Stanley to Galisteo in Santa Fe County, New Mexico with the Sangre de Christo mountains in the background. A sign along the road tells the distances to Galisteo, Lamy, and Santa Fe. New Mexico highway 41 looking north.

 

New Mexico Highway 41 looking north across the Galisteo Basin in Santa Fe County, New Mexico with the Sangre de Christo mountains in the background. Lonely ranch pastures are visible on both sides of the road.

 

A snow covered gate and wall in front of a house in Santa Fe, New Mexico during the snowstorm of December 29, 2006. The house, bushes, and sidewalk are also covered in snow.

 

A foggy afternoon landscape right before a winter storm along Waldo Canyon Road near Interstate 25 in Santa Fe County, New Mexico. The Sandia Mountains are barely visible through the fog and dark clouds hang low over the mountains. View from the top of LaBajada Mesa looking south.

 

Rainbow Snow is a snowcone stand on Cerrillos Road in Santa Fe, New Mexico. Photographed in winter with snow on the ground. The circular building is boarded up for the cold season. It stands up like a tire and looks like it could roll away.

 

Abandoned store in the village of Encino, New Mexico along US-285 in Torrance County. Tom Montoya Son Dry Goods, General Merchandise, Hardware, Groceries. The old adobe building is painted white and has old wooden doors that still have the old hours of operation signs.

 

Ruins of an abandoned adobe house in the small town of Galisteo, New Mexico showing the weathered wood roof beams, which are known as vigas in spanish, and the wooden window frame.

 

Abandoned storefronts on the main street of Estancia, New Mexico. On the left is a stucco theater building and on the right is a brick storefront that was once the Star Submarine Sandwich restaurant. A for sale sign hangs in the window of the theater box office.

 

The old wooden gate in the stone wall that surrounds the cemetery at Galisteo, New Mexico. A large wooden crucifix or cross stands atop the wood frame of the gates. Snow is still visible on the ground on this sunny winter day.

 

The Ortiz Mountains on a hazy day in December. The open pasture in the Galisteo Basin stretches back to the horizon toward the distant mountains. Photographed from New Mexico state highway 41 north of Galisteo.

 

A landscape scene along old route 66 in Quay County, New Mexico with blue sky and dramatic clouds. The photograph shows where the pavement ends and a dirt road begins.

 

Two tiny little dogs bark from behind a chain link fence with a "beware of Dog" sign in Santa Fe, New Mexico

 

Storm clouds gather over the Ortiz Mountains in Santa Fe County, New Mexico as seen from Waldo Canyon Road on LaBajada Mesa. The mountains look tiny under the big sky and the towering dark clouds.

 

Fluffy clouds form over the Sandia Mountains near Albuquerque, New Mexico. Seen from LaBajada Mesa in Santa Fe County. Photographed from the side of Waldo Canyon Road on the mesa.

 

The ortiz mountains seen in early evening from near the edge of La Bajada Mesa in Santa Fe County, New Mexico just off interstate 25. Dramatic clouds hover over the landscape in a deep blue sky.

 

A landscape seen from the side of Interstate 40 in Quay County, New Mexico just east of the town of Bard. Dramatic blue sky and clouds along old Route 66.

 

An abandoned old west bar called La Cantina in the little town of Cerrillos, New Mexico. Looks like an old west saloon with classic tin-roofed porch.

 

The ortiz mountains seen in early evening from near the edge of La Bajada Mesa in Santa Fe County, New Mexico just off interstate 25. Dramatic clouds hover over the landscape in a dark sky.

 

 

 

 

 

Christopher Crawford
Fort Wayne, IN

chris@chriscrawfordphoto.com

 

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Cerrillios Hills on the Turquoise Trail in Santa Fe County, New Mexico. Dramatic Sky and clouds over the mountains at sunset.

 

Cerrillios Hills on the Turquoise Trail in Santa Fe County, New Mexico. Dramatic Sky and clouds over the mountains at sunset.

 

The Antonio Simoni building in Cerrillos, New Mexico. The building is an abandoned hotel that has antique shops in the ground floor. A Coke sign and a sign from the producers of the movie Young Guns hangs from the porch. There is a balcony over the porch of the old west style building.

 

The front door of the post office in the tiny village of Glorieta in the Sangre de Christo mountains southeast of Santa Fe. The post office sits next to the Santa Fe Railroad tracks and was originally the town's train depot.

 

Cerrillios Hills on the Turquoise Trail in Santa Fe County New Mexico. Dramatic Sky and clouds over the mountains

 

Side door in an abandoned building in Estancia, New Mexico. An old light fixture hangs from a pipe above the door.

 

A windmill and a low hill on an abandoned farm on the plains south of Santa Fe, New Mexico. The landscape is along the historic Turquoise Trail

 

Landscape photograph looking over the southwestern edge of LaBajada Mesa in Santa Fe County, New Mexico. Deep blue sky and hazy mountains in the background and yellow wildflowers on the mesa.

 

Barbed wire ranch fence along the Turquoise Trail in Santa Fe County, New Mexico. A landscape scene with flat plains and big sky and fluffy clouds.

 

Interior of the What Not Shop, an antique store in Cerrillos, New Mexico. The shop looks like an old west store with an old fashioned tin ceiling and stained glass in the front windows. The old wooden display cases are overfilled with antiques and junk. The walls are covered in old paintings.

 

Self Portrait of fine art photographer Christopher Crawford walking along Waldo Canyon Road on LaBajada Mesa in Santa Fe County, New Mexico. The Ortiz Mountains are visible in the background.

 

A statue of the Virgin Mary on the catholic church in the small town of San Juan, New Mexico in the Sangre de Christo Mountains. The holy mother sits in a stone grotto on the side of the adobe church.

 

The old Catholic church in the small town of Tecolote, New Mexico with pigeons flying near the steeple. The church is built of adobe and is surrounded by an adobe wall. A large cross and a pole with a bell stand in the churchyard.

 

Daisy flowers grow in front of the old church and cemetery in Hernandez, New Mexico. The old adobe church is missing its bell and is surrounded by overgrown weeds.

 

Old Doctor Pepper vending machine in front of the Tecolote Volunteer Fire Department in the small town of Tecolote, New Mexico

 

Steeple tower on the old adobe church in Lamy, New Mexico. The tower is topped with a white dome and a large crucifix or cross.

 

Old abandoned adobe house on the hill overlooking the small town of Tecolote, New Mexico. The rundown house has holes in the tin roof and adobe walls.

 

The front doors of the old adobe church in Hernandez, New Mexico in Rio Arriba County.

 

El Paisano Mexican supermarket, Santa Fe, New Mexico. Photographed at night. The signs in the windows glow with advertisements for musica, fruita, and panaderia

 

Old abandoned adobe church in Lamy, New Mexico. Catholic Church built of Adobe with a tin roof. The plaster is cracked and broken away over much of the fascade, revealing the adobe bricks that the church was built from.

 

Ruins of an abandoned adobe house in the small town of Galisteo, New Mexico showing the weathered wood roof beams, which are known as vigas in spanish, and the wooden window frame.

 

Owl's Liquors on Saint Francis Drive in Santa Fe, New Mexico. The name Paul Pacheco Senior is painted in spanish gothic lettering on the front of the pueblo style adobe building, and a shopping cart full of carboard boxes is wedged behind a cement pedestal in front of the store.

 

Chain link fence around a park in Santa Fe, New Mexico covered in snow during the blizzard of December 29, 2006.

 

Lynn Cobb stands behind the counter of the Santa Fe Photo Co-Op, a used camera store that he has owned for many years in Santa Fe

 

A No Trespassing sign painted on an old tire hanging on a barbed wire fencepost along Waldo Canyon Road in Santa Fe County, New Mexico on top of LaBajada Mesa. Photographed on an overcast winter day.

 

Old payphone in front of the What-Not-Shop in the tiny former mining town of Cerrillos, New Mexico. The phone is a modern style pay phone but it is beat up and scratched up really badly.

 

A barbed wire fence along Waldo Canyon Road in Santa Fe County, New Mexico. A stick is hanging from the wire between two fenceposts. A no trespassing sign is wrapped around one fencepost. This scene is on the top of LaBajada Mesa. It was photographed on a foggy winter day.

 

Abandoned Moore's Appliances store in Estancia, New Mexico. Abandoned main street storefront. The building is sandstone with wood paneling over the windows. Other abandoned stores site on both sides of it.

 

One of the old weathered wood crucifixes or crosses on the top of the stone wall around the cemetery at Galisteo, New Mexico

 

A ranch road along the historic Turquoise Trail in Santa Fe County, New Mexico. The Ortiz Mountains can be seen in the hazy background under a big blue sky.

 

A landscape scene along old route 66 in Quay County, New Mexico with blue sky and dramatic clouds.

 

Fluffy clouds form before a storm over LaBajada Mesa in Santa Fe County, New Mexico near Interstate 25. Waldo Canyon Road runs into the distance toward the jagged peaks of the Ortiz Mountains.

 

Sunset through storm clouds over the edge of LaBajada Mesa southwest of Santa Fe, New Mexico. Light streams through the dark clouds that hover of the distant mountains.

 

This cow shaped sign stands along Interstate 40 in Quay County, New Mexico. It says: "We Support Our Troops USA" The sign is painted like the American Flag in red, white, and blue.

 

The Sandia Mountains near Albuquerque seen from LaBajada Mesa southwest of Santa Fe, New Mexico. Clouds hang over the mountains rimmed with light on a sunny day looking south off the edge of the mesa.

 

A tree in the parking lot of the Santa Fe Place Mall has grafitti written on an area of the trunk where the bark is missing. The grafitti says: "Yo Momma is Ugly" in black marker

 

Abandoned Route 66 era tire shop in the small town of Tucamcari, New Mexico. The building is white adobe with metal grates over the windows. An old Route 66 sign sits in a window.

 

A view of the Ortiz Mountains from Waldo Canyon Road in rural Santa Fe County, New Mexico south of I-25. Photographed in winter on a foggy day. Snow sits along the road in patches and it covers the distant mountains.