I found myself scrolling through photos from years past today, wound up playing with a few from my trip out to Santa Fe a few years ago. Santa Fe is the second oldest city in the United States and the historic downtown area is a lovely place to explore, lots of old adobe buildings to see. This first shot is from a side street off the main square downtown, so much of the structures there have a softer, rounded shape, the square, seeming symmetry of this shot just stood out to me.
The solid, well maintained structures in downtown Santa Fe made for a stark contrast with our previous stop on that trip. We'd stayed in Amarillo, Texas the night before and had a few hours to wander so we explored a bit of downtown and the 'historic' Route 66. This second photo is of a derelict building in downtown Amarillo that we took a fancy to shooting. Wandering old Route 66, we were struck by how it seemed to have been abandoned to history and untouched in decades. We walked several miles of it without seeing another soul until we came to the stretch struggling along on nostalgia and the occasional tourist.
Along the stretch that was seemingly abandoned we found some cryptic graffiti that seemed fitting for the area. "Your pain is mine now :( " is written on the concrete at the end of structure. The next photo is of the building next to it.
Santa Fe had a few surprises though, the shop in the photo above had the sign in the photo below on its back wall. While I had known that Los Alamos was nearby, I hadn't realized that Santa Fe had played any role in that. It definitely seemed like too calm of a place for something like that to be going on, which could have been why it was there...
This last photo I am a bit fond of, just because it gives you a sense of all the shapes and sizes that the walls and structures there can have. Somehow everything seems softer than the stark, solid lines of more modern structures.
So what is some of y'alls favorite historical styles/structures to take photos of?
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