Thanks to my friend, Bob Eggers, I recently enjoyed a bike tour of the Los Poblanos ranch. I had visited the restaurant at Los Poblanos several times before, but was unaware of the extent of the property and its interesting history and architecture. La Quinta is the name given to this building adjacent to the main ranch house which was designed expressly for large meetings and cultural events. The architect was John Gaw Meem, famous for his Pueblo Revival and Territorial Revival designs.
These pictures were shot on expired Kodak Gold 200 in my little point-and-shoot Vivitar Ultra Wide and Slim (vuws). Perhaps not the camera one first considers when talking about architectural photography, but the two-element 22mm lens is surprisingly sharp and produces wide views with little apparent distortion.
I had some previous familiarity with Meems' work as a result of many hours of walking around the UNM campus where there are twenty-five buildings designed by him, most in the Pueblo Revival style. He regarded the Zimmerman Library as his crowning achievement. The Library has been the subject for many of my old cameras including the Ansco Folding Buster Brown and the KW Patent Etui.
