Photograph of a northern New Mexican landscape. The photo includes a desert field scattered with various shrubs and short trees. Dark mountain silhouettes appear on the horizon under clouds.

Photograph of a multi-story pueblo house in Taos, New Mexico taken in December of 1985. The photo shows the house from the front yard and includes various adobe architectural features and two dogs resting at the corners of the front door.

Photograph of the side of the San Francisco de Asís Mission Church as part of the Taos Pueblo. The photo highlights a break in a short adobe wall running the length of the exterior wall of the church. The exterior of the church includes a rounded glass window, log ends, and two bell towers facing the front of the building topped with crosses.

Photograph of the Las Trampas village church San José de Gracia established in 1751. The photo features the interior of the main sanctuary which includes two rows of pews, alter, alter paintings, an exposed wood beam ceiling, and a wooden candle chandelier.

Photograph of a church in northern Taos, New Mexico taken in December of 1985. The photo includes a small dilapidated adobe church behind a wood slat fence. The ground is covered in small patches of snow.

Photograph of a forest with snow covering the trees South of Taos, New Mexico. The photo includes a clearing in front of a wall of tall conifer trees covered in snow with a small path-like gap in the trees.

Photograph of the side of a church building in Taos, New Mexico. The photo includes a white slat gate over a stone pathway with a connecting wooden walkway leading around to the front of the church.

Photograph of a small convenience store in New Mexico. The photo features the front of the one-story building covered with a light layer of snow. The façade of the store includes various soda advertisements, large windows, signs, and strings of dried peppers hanging from the roof line.

Photograph of a rock formation in the mountains of Northern New Mexico. The photo includes a weathered rock formation surrounded by dark shrub-like trees.

Photograph of an old abandoned car on the side of a mountain road in Truchas, New Mexico. The photo includes a drop-off that reveals a valley and a distant mountain covered in trees.

Photograph of the church of San José de Gracia in Las Trampas, New Mexico. The photo includes the 17th-century adobe front gate, door, a tall tower topped with a wooden cross, and a second-story walkway.

Photograph of a field on the edge of a forest in Northern New Mexico. The photo includes a lone-leaning tree on the edge of a curving stream cutting into the sloped ground.

Photograph of an adobe house and surrounding landscape architecture in San Juan, New Mexico. The photo includes multiple geometric stepped terrace walls.

Photograph overlooking a house located in a valley near Cundiyo New Mexico. The house sits alone overlooking a creek and a field with two grazing horses with a trailer parked in the top back corner.

Photograph of mountains and a field leading into a forest in New Taos, NM. The photo shows the mountain tops dusted with snow and conifer trees of varying heights at the edge of the forest.

Photograph of an adobe gateway to a pueblo catholic cemetery with the Spanish phrase "Dios Da Y Dios Quita" written over the entrance near Penasco New Mexico. The photo includes metal and wooden gates. The phrase "Dios Da Y Dios Quita" translates to God gives and God takes away.

Photograph of a church in a small desert town in New Mexico. The photo features a large white cross at the front of a low stone wall surrounding a simple church. The church façade is symmetrical and is topped with a small white cross.

Photograph of slanted and jutting rock formations at the Garden of the Gods in New Mexico. The photo shows weathered and rocky ground leading to the formation covered in scattered desert shrubbery and trees.

Photograph of a desert area with shrubs with mountains in the background. The photo includes uneven and sandy ground littered with various shrubs and desert plants.

Photograph of a field landscape in spring between trees looking toward snow-capped mountains. The ground is littered with large stones and natural debris. The field is covered in grass and dandelions.

Photograph of two small log sheds in the northern New Mexican mountains taken in December of 1985. The photo includes two slopes covered in snow with the tallest peak populated with conifer trees. Tall grass pokes through the layer of snow around the sheds. The dark dilapidated sheds heavily contrast the brightness of the snow.

Photograph of the rock formations at the Garden of the Gods near Madrid, New Mexico. The photo shows three rock formations all cracked and pitted by weathering taken in the winter of 1985.

Photograph of a gravesite near a mountain, New Mexico. The photo includes a desert landscape dotted with headstones, crosses, and statues.

Photograph of the church of San José de Gracia in Las Trampas, New Mexico. The photo includes the front façade of the 17th-century adobe church with its front door, second-story log beam balcony, and to the left an iron bar enclosure topped with a cross.