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Image was shot at Santa Elena Canyon, Big Bend National Park, Texas in 2024. Majestic cliffs stand tall under the golden light of the rising sun, presiding over a scrub-dotted desert floor. The shadows cast by the cliffs add a striking contrast to the landscape, emphasizing the rugged textures and vastness of the terrain.

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...