Persistence Gallery displays images sampling the 1990 book published by the Museum of New Mexico Press.
These photographs document Catholic faith heritage still enduring throughout centuries in the Southwest. Architecture, space, and light combine and create a visceral presence in these places of worship. Distinctive rituals and community traditions still passed on through mayordomos and generation to generation. Similarly -architecture, manifestations of faith, the continuity of ceremony, and a community vitality make for palpable imagery. And so this documentation explores active and abandoned shrines, churches, innumerable rutted roads, and thousands of encuentros of faith and witness. The Persistence of Memory became my journey as well.
Skimmers feed in large groups and fly low plowing the surface water as a foraging strategy. Verticle eyes slits to reduce glare.
In 2010 to create four species of wadding birds with perhaps the oldest fossil histories of any bird.
Early morning takeoff
Butorides stratus or green-backed heron is a dark wading bird with bluish back, chestnut neck, grey underparts and dark sharp bill.
Parabuteo unicinctus inhabits semiarid woodlands, marshes, and brushlands. Harris hawks are notable for cooperative hunting.
Elegance of cranes soaring, touching down, and skills of graceful dancing, courting, wing stretches inspires cultures worldwide.
Ardea herodias are carnivores though daily dieting on fish and aquatic invertebrates; but also eat snakes, lizards, frogs andsmall animals.
Julia Longwing Butterfly is a member of the diverse Brush-footed butterfly family, related to the Monarch, Viceroy.
Egret thula was once hunted for its plumage. The Snowy egret is migratory; common in wetlands & southern estuarial regions,