Alvino House, Castolon, Big Bend

This is by the ranger station in the Castolon Historic District inside Big Bend National Park.

From the National Park Service website:

The Alvino House is the oldest intact adobe structure in Big Bend National Park. The building represents the everyday life of the many families who lived and farmed along the Rio Grande. This building was constructed around 1901 by Cipriano Hernandez, one of the Hispanic settlers who farmed near Castolon.

National Park Service

What makes the photo for me is that off in the distance, you can see the Sierra Ponce Mountains stretching across the horizon like a fortress wall with a notch that marks the location of the famed Santa Elena Canyon.

We didn’t go down to the Alvino House. It was already late afternoon and was trying to get to Santa Elena with enough time to hike through the canyon before the sun went down.

Shot on Cinestill BWXX, one of my favorite film stocks, Leica MP-4 and Summicron 35, perhaps not the ideal focal length for this shot but it was the only lens I took with me other than the one on the Voigtlander Perkeo II.