Panoramas
Along Historic El Camino Real
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THE EXQUISITE MILIEU of a younger California survives only as a faded memory of centuries past when El Camino Real—The Royal Highway—linked Spain’s North American territories to her viceroyalty in Mexico City. Along this rustic highway stood Indian villages and missions, forts, pueblos and battlefields. Nowhere in 21st-century America does an old camino verge on so many of a state’s historic panoramas than it does in California.
Today, as we traverse stretches of Highways 5 and 101, we encounter fleeting glimpses of a younger California. The nostalgia comes to life in these images, as captured through the discriminating lens of photographer-historian Terry Ruscin. The scenes are timeless—the artist’s criterion, excluding modern encumbrance. Here you will view pristine landscapes and historic sites of California, untouched, unblemished by modernity, and read passages from explorers’ journals—the first recorded impressions of California’s majesty.
The Images
• The Big Sur |
• Mission San Carlos Borroméo |
| • Morro Rock |
• Mission San Antonio de Padua |
| • Mission San Diego de Alcalá |
• Mission San Juan Capistrano |
| • Mission La Purísima Concepción |
• Mission Santa Inés |
| • Mission San Juan Bautista |
• Fort Ross |
| • Mission La Soledad |
• San Pasqual Battlefield |
| • Mission San Luis Rey |
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Panoramas©
An edition limited to 100 copies
Each photo hand printed with archival inks on Arches cold-pressed watercolor paper,
signed and numbered by the artist, 13" x 9"
Folio: $2100
Individual prints: $210
San Diego, CA, USA
All rights reserved by Terry Ruscin, 2002©
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