Moonrise at Castle Butte, Valley of the Gods Size:30x45 I had no certainty that

I had no certainty that photography would become my future

and dense spines

The stone formations didn’t disappear into darkness

bentonite hills streaked with color

ancestral peoples marked stone across this landscape

Moonrise at Castle Butte, Valley of the Gods Size:30x45 I had no certainty thatValley of the Gods, Utah This photograph was made near the Castle Butte in the Valley of the Gods, and it came from a single frame pulled from a time lapse sequence. It was never intended to be a complex composite or a heavily engineered night image. The moment simply worked on its own. The bright glow on the left horizon and the soft illumination across the desert floor come from a moonrise, captured just as the moon crested the horizon. That natural