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.
Ardea alba are members of the heron family with all-white plumage, Ardeidae. In search of prey it can walk, swim, hover, and aqua-dive.
Known as carpal, courlan, and crying bird derives its name forseeminly limping. A down curved bill gives aid in removing snails from shells.
Bosque del Apache is named for the Apache tribes that once roamed the area-a favorite migration habitat for 374 bird species.
The Osprey build large treetop nests in open surroundings. A pair will rotate in the hunting for food and nest protection.
Western osprey is called sea hawk, river hawk, and fish hawk. Tolerating a wide habitat range its exclusive fish diet keeps it close to water.
Cochlearius cochlearius lives in mangrove swamps. Also known as boatbill, its scoop-like bill coined the name. The Boat-billed heron is normally nocturnal and generally nonmigratory .
Pileated Woodpecker drill
distinctive rectangular-shaped holes to get at carpenter ants and other insects. Pileated refers to the bird's prominent red crest.
Roseate Spoonbil almost exterminated in the 1860's by plume hunters. Its feeding style is walking forward slowly while swing its head side to side while sifting muck with wide flat bills.
Chen Rossi roost in great numbers and give spectacular morning displays as over twenty thousand geese join sandhill in a collection of thundering wingbeats.