Rust and Starlight Big Bend The lake feels still

The lake feels still

or infrastructure

emphasizing surface texture and form rather than scale or distance

The Chisos Mountains take their name from the Chizo people

to try things that don’t quite fit established rules

Rust and Starlight Big Bend The lake feels stillTerlingua, Texas This photograph was made during my early years of experimenting with night photography in the Big Bend region, at a time when I was actively pushing technical boundaries to see what was possible. This piece is built from multiple photographs captured on the same night. The foreground vehicle was photographed at sunset and again at night, while the sky was captured later, once the Milky Way had fully revealed itself. At the time, this