El Cuartel de Sonoma

These are the historic northernmost military barracks defending the Mexican territory of Alta California under the command of General Mariano Guadalupe Vallejo.
Yanqui insurrectionists took control of Sonoma in 1846, raising the California Bear Republic flag in the plaza. Soon the news arrived that the USA had declared war upon Mexico and had extracted the Treaty of Guadalupe from Mexico, ceding California to the Americans.

This image was shot from a Minolta Autocord LMX Chiyoko TLR medium format film camera using a Seikosha-MX Rokkor 75mm f/3.2 & 3.5 lenses and Kodak Portra 160 film, the negative scanned by an Epson Perfection V600 and digitally rendered with Photoshop.