Big Bend Adobe Ruins and the Milky Way Size:22x40 and often feel closer to

and often feel closer to how the eye actually experiences a place

No elements were added

the scale became overwhelming

This image reflects a shift toward letting scenes exist as they are more often

while the sky was captured later

Big Bend Adobe Ruins and the Milky Way Size:22x40 and often feel closer toBig 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