Airglow Over Ancient Stone Size:24x36 At the base of the

At the base of the slope

The sky was heavy

and modern artifacts rarely hold my attention for long

The landscape is made up of fragile mudstone

Airglow Over Ancient Stone Size:24x36 At the base of theBistiDe Na Zin Badlands, New Mexico This photograph was made after the sun sat in the BistiDe Na Zin Badlands, after the last color had faded from the horizon. I stayed in this spot intentionally, wanting to see how the same forms would feel once daylight fully released its grip on the landscape. What unfolded overhead was unlike anything I had personally witnessed before. The sky filled with intense airglow, rippling and luminous, almost aurora like