Airglow Over Ancient Stone Size:24x36 to observe it

to observe it

river corridor

I wanted to slow down and build an image that felt grounded and deliberate rather than rushed or purely iconic

with long transitions as the sun slips behind the mesas and the land cools

shaped slowly by wind and water into forms that feel more biological than geological

Airglow Over Ancient Stone Size:24x36 to observe itBistiDe Na Zin Badlands, New Mexico This photograph was made after the sun sat in the BistiDe Na Zin Badlands, after the last color had faded from the horizon. I stayed in this spot intentionally, wanting to see how the same forms would feel once daylight fully released its grip on the landscape. What unfolded overhead was unlike anything I had personally witnessed before. The sky filled with intense airglow, rippling and luminous, almost aurora like