Airglow Over Ancient Stone Size:24x36 with long transitions as the

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

to observe it

the site felt quieter and more deliberate

This is the favorite photograph I’ve ever made at the Sandhills

Airglow Over Ancient Stone Size:24x36 with long transitions as theBistiDe 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