Scott Holcomb's photos with the keyword: New Mexico

I dreamt last night that I was sailing across the Southwestern landscapes of New Mexico. This photo was taken by an Asahi Pentax 6 X 7 medium format film camera and Super-Mult-Coated Takumar/6X7 1:4.5/75 lens with a Smardy IR 720 filter using Rollei Retro 400S film, the negative scanned by an Epson Perfection V600 and digitally rendered with Photoshop

Once this was a bustling city, part of the Ancient Puebloan/Chacoan civilization found in the canyonlands of what is now the Southwestern USA. It is now silent, abandoned seven centuries ago. I gaze at the empty ruins, contemplating the lives of the residents and thinking about their lost paradise. This photo was taken by a Hasselblad 500C medium format film camera with a Carl Zeiss Distagon 1:4 f=50mm lens and B+W 67E KR15 2.3⨯ filter using Kodak 400TX film, the negative scanned by an Epson Perfection V600 and digitally rendered with Photoshop.

Once this settlement prospered. For the ancient Pueblo people who lived here many centuries ago it was paradise on earth. Then their world came crashing down upon them leading to the abandonment of this and many other cities in the canyonlands of what is now the Southwestern USA. This photo was taken by a Hasselblad 500C medium format film camera with a Carl Zeiss Distagon 1:4 f=50mm lens and a Zenza Bronica 67mm SY44•2C(Y1) filter using Fuji Neopan Acros 100 film, the negative scanned by an Epson Perfection V600 and digitally rendered with Photoshop.

I spent my childhood in a small town in northwestern New Mexico. Vast open canyonlands highlighted by sandstone bluffs and cottonwood riverine areas were my personal playground. Years later, I realized how special such a playground was. This photo was taken by a Hasselblad 500C medium format film camera with a Carl Zeiss Distagon 1:4 f=50mm lens and a Kowa O-81B ø67 filter using Fuji Neopan Acros film, the negative scanned by an Epson Perfection V600 and digitally rendered with Photoshop.

Growing up in the Four Corners Region of northwestern New Mexico, vast horizons were the norm. I could only imagine what it was like to live in a big city. This photo was taken by a Hasselblad 500C medium format film camera with a Carl Zeiss Planar 1:2.8 f=80mm lens and a Zenza Bronica 67mm SO56•2C(YA3) filter using Ilford HP5 Plus 400 film, the negative scanned by an Epson Perfection V600 and digitally rendered with Photoshop.

This Bucking Bronco provides the horse power to run the industrial world. Only the fence keeps me from riding him! This photo was taken by a Hasselblad 500C medium format film camera with a Carl Zeiss Distagon 1:4 f=50mm lens and a Kowa O-81B ø67 filter using Fuji Neopan Acros film, the negative scanned by an Epson Perfection V600 and digitally rendered with Photoshop.

Singing out a welcome to visitors from atop the fence. This photo was taken by a Hasselblad 500C medium format film camera with a Carl Zeiss Sonnar 1:4 f=150mm lens and Zenza Bronica 67mm SY48•2C(Y2) filter using Ilford HP5 Plus 400 film, the negative scanned by an Epson Perfection V600 and digitally rendered with Photoshop.

At the very beginning of this Place by Flowing Waters, The People gathered to build a Great Kiva. In so doing, they enacted the joining of the primal pairing of nature that bonded them as one people, male and female: Sky and Earth, sun and moon, winter and summer. The Great Kiva represented the First House created by The People upon their emergence from the Earth's Navel. The Great Kiva was the place where all the clans met to celebrate that First Story. The Great Kiva was the center of the Cosmos, where the six sacred directions symbolically came together, where The People reconnected with their spiritual Center, the Earth's Navel. This photo was taken by a Hasselblad 500C medium format film camera with a Carl Zeiss Distagon 1:4 f=50mm lens using Ilford Delta 3200 Professional film, the negative scanned by an Epson Perfection V600 and digitally rendered with Photoshop.

Like the Oracles of yesteryear, The Rock can foretell human history. As I queried humanity's future, I felt a foreboding feeling as it responded. This photo was taken by an Asahi Pentax 6 X 7 medium format film camera and Super-Multi-Coated TAKUMAR/6X7 1:4/200mm lens with a HOYA 67mm INFRARED (R72) filter using Rollei Retro 400s film, the negative scanned by an Epson Perfection V600 and digitally rendered with Photoshop.

The rock was on stage and grabbing all of the attention for miles around! This photo was taken by a Hasselblad 500C medium format film camera with a Carl Zeiss Sonnar 1:4 f=150mm lens and Zenza Bronica 67mm SO56•2C(YA3) filter using Rollei RPX 25 film, the negative scanned by an Epson Perfection V600 and digitally rendered with Photoshop.

Sandstone canyons follow the course of the San Juan River in northwestern New Mexico. Some of the canyons will echo back at you when you whistle or clap. Can you yodel ?? This photo was taken by a Hasselblad 500C medium format film camera with a Carl Zeiss Distagon 1:4 f=50mm lens and a Kowa O-81B ø67 filter using Fuji Neopan Acros film, the negative scanned by an Epson Perfection V600 and digitally rendered with Photoshop.

Rising far above the plain, this stately rock is a reminder of the geologic past. This photo was taken by a Hasselblad 500C medium format film camera with a Carl Zeiss Sonnar 1:4 f=150mm lens and Zenza Bronica SO56•2C(YA3) filter using Kodak 400TX film, the negative scanned by an Epson Perfection V600 and digitally rendered with Photosho

The Navajos call this sacred rock, Tsé Bitʼaʼí, which means, Winged Rock. On maps it is identified as, Shiprock. Whatever you may call this 30 million year-old volcanic plug soaring into the sky, it is a special place - an icon of the Navajo Nation and of the Four Corners Region of New Mexico. This photo was taken by an Asahi Pentax 6 X 7 medium format film camera and Super-Mult-Coated Takumar/6X7 1:4.5/75 lens with a Smardy IR 720 filter using Rollei IR 400 film, the negative scanned by an Epson Perfection V600 and digitally rendered with Photoshop.

Shiprock is a monadnock rising nearly 1,583 feet (482.5 m) above the high-desert plain of the Navajo Nation in San Juan County, New Mexico. This photo was taken by a Hasselblad 500C medium format film camera with a Carl Zeiss Sonnar 1:4 f=150mm lens and Zenza Bronica 67mm SO56•2C(YA3) filter using Kodak 400TX film, the negative scanned by an Epson Perfection V600 and digitally rendered with Photoshop.

Through the corridor of the ages. This photo was taken by a Hasselblad 500C medium format film camera with a Carl Zeiss Distagon 1:4 f=50mm lens and B+W 67E KR15 2.3⨯ filter using Kodak 400TX film, the negative scanned by an Epson Perfection V600 and digitally rendered with Photoshop.

A perspective of Aztec Ruins, an ancient Puebloan city abandoned sometime in the 1300s. Misnamed by the first excavators, these Anasazi/Chacoan buildings actually predated the rise of the Aztecs in Mexico. This photo was taken by a Hasselblad 500C medium format film camera with a Carl Zeiss Distagon 1:4 f=50mm lens and B+W 67E KR15 2.3⨯ filter using Kodak 400TX film, the negative scanned by an Epson Perfection V600 and digitally rendered with Photoshop.