Rust and Starlight Big Bend the water carries weight and

the water carries weight and momentum

The lake feels still

then Milky Way was captured later the same night using a longer focal length

I worked close to a cluster of prickly pear at the edge of the rim

emphasizing surface texture and form rather than scale or distance

Rust and Starlight Big Bend the water carries weight andTerlingua, 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