Big Bend Adobe Ruins and the Milky Way Size:22x40 There are no marked trails

There are no marked trails

trading contrast for cohesion

the result of long-term erosion and wind deposition

The foreground was created using a focus stack to maintain sharpness from the cactus in the immediate foreground through the distant canyon formations

this was the place I had circled as the end of the road

Big Bend Adobe Ruins and the Milky Way Size:22x40 There are no marked trailsBig Bend Region, Texas This photograph came from one of my earliest astrophotography trips using a medium format camera. I had just started working with the Fuji GFX 100Sii, not because I felt limited by full frame systems, but because I was curious. Medium format promised something different in how it handled detail, color, and tonal transitions, even at night. I wanted to see what it could really do under dark skies. This was one of the first