Big Bend Adobe Ruins and the Milky Way Size:22x40 This was the first time

This was the first time I was able to experience El Salvador

Vast distances separate small communities

The foreground was created using a focus stack to maintain sharpness from the cactus in the immediate foreground through the distant canyon formations

The only real option was to stay put and let the moment arrive on its own terms

I build a stop here into the route

Big Bend Adobe Ruins and the Milky Way Size:22x40 This was the first timeBig 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