Scott Holcomb's photos with the keyword: Aztec

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.

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.

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.