After spending two nights photographing the Bisti/De-Na-Zin Wilderness in northwestern New Mexico, I went south to tiny El Morro National Monument, a site that preserves some of the most interesting cultural history in North America literally etched in stone. The monument is most well-known for the 2000+ inscriptions set into sandstone by ancestral Puebloans, Spanish explorers, and American pioneers. Click on the thumbnails for larger images and a description of each.