Photographic project
Open Ground
Distance written across desert terrain.
Road, basin, escarpment, and water mark a passage through land shaped by exposure and time.
A block of stone holds the horizon above a quiet field of desert scrub.
The road carries the eye through open ground toward a low blue ridge.
Late light finds the edges of an open basin while the foreground settles into shadow.
Heat and distance soften a long escarpment above the broken ground below.
Water gathers in a shadowed pocket between pale, layered canyon walls.
Closing reflection
Open country changes slowly; the light is what reveals the movement.