Big Bend Adobe Ruins and the Milky Way Size:22x40 Vast distances separate small communities

Vast distances separate small communities

Rather than chase scenes that weren’t going to materialize

I build a stop here into the route

There are no marked trails

the result of long-term erosion and wind deposition

Big Bend Adobe Ruins and the Milky Way Size:22x40 Vast distances separate small communitiesBig Bend Region, Texas This photograph came from one of my earliest astrophotography trips using a medium format camera. I had just started working with the Fuji GFX 100Sii, not because I felt limited by full frame systems, but because I was curious. Medium format promised something different in how it handled detail, color, and tonal transitions, even at night. I wanted to see what it could really do under dark skies. This was one of the first