Photo taken at Bosque del Apache, New Mexico. Photograph – © Christena Stephens Photography
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Photographer and writer, who's a bit of a taphophile and loves true crime, history, wildlife, and Goth music. Most of all a dog-lover.
Meet an Accidental Historian
Beginning in June 2013 I started getting know Father Stanley Crocchiola who served as a priest for 13 years in Nazareth. The former New Yorker came to Nazareth in January 1969. Out of the many things he accomplished – one was that he was instrumental in getting Nazareth incorporated as a Texas city. I became…
Read MoreYa Can’t Fix Stupid…
On a recent visit to Bandelier National Monument in New Mexico my friend, June and I encountered stupidity on an entirely new level. A gentleman visitor backtracked along the main hiking path along the ruins to tell us about a rattlesnake that had just left the trail. We stopped dead in our tracks. Then we…
Read MoreA Baby Barn Swallows Tale
Squeak. Squeak. Squeak is how these photographs are remembered… In 2007 I was working in earnest to save to a historic ranch headquarters known as the Mallet Ranch in Texas. Part of my documentation process was to take extensive archival photographs of the buildings’ architecture. The oldest structure was the main house and I needed…
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