Viewing Endangered History

Photograph – © Christena Stephens Photography  

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A 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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The Four Windows

I took this photo in New Mexico while a friend was photographing other parts of the street we were parked on. This building in question was vacant that houses these four north facing windows. I kept seeing the old curtains moving in the second window even when I saw no broken panes or tears in…

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Lonely Plains Church of Taiban, New Mexico

  Taiban Church This church sits on the western edge of the Llano Estacado in Eastern New Mexico (NM).  I drive by it every time I travel to the beautiful Land of Enchantment.  It is a lone sentential of Neo-Classical architecture that has long since been abandoned.  Back in 2012, I walked just south of…

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