Airglow Over Ancient Stone Size:24x36 I wanted to slow down

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

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

river corridor

the fragile boundary between staying and falling

Airglow Over Ancient Stone Size:24x36 I wanted to slow downBistiDe 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