The Chisos on Fire Size:48x72 I love placing cactus and

I love placing cactus and subjects in the extreme foreground as well

The stone formations didn’t disappear into darkness

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

growing slowly over many years before flowering once near the end of their life cycle

Guadalupe River

The Chisos on Fire Size:48x72 I love placing cactus andBig Bend Region, Texas We had been teaching astrophotography late into the night, walking through exposures and tracking techniques under a sky that felt endless. I drove out before sunrise to scout for the next evenings session. I planned on sleeping afterward but the clouds were starting to give promise of an amazing sunrise. High altitude texture started forming before dawn. Thin at first, then layered. By the time the eastern horizon began to