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Image was shot at Santa Elena Canyon, Big Bend National Park, Texas in 2024. A gentle river (the Rio Grande) snakes through a rocky riverbed, flanked by dry grasses and reeds basking in the sunlight. In the background, hills rise subtly against a clear blue sky.

Capturing a Moment of Experience For me, photography has always been an extension of my travels and of my curiosity. Unlike the artistry of most landscape and commercial photographers, early in my journey with photography, time did not always allow me to seek perfect conditions, take repeated exposures, or make numerous adjustments to the configuration and settings of my equipment. As a result, my early photographs are not so much artifacts, but rather attempts to record a brief moment of my own experience. The angle, hour, lighting, and weather didn't always cooperate. It was serendipity that the composition, color, emotion, and subject matter of some of the thousands of photographs I have taken successfully captured the moment as I...