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Sunset in color

Shot a random roll of expired Kodak Gold 200 in a point-and-shoot – Samsung Maxima Zoom 90i, which was also sold as the Rollei Prego 90. I like the performance, but the camera is a bit too chunky to be a handy carry-around. Still, I like the rich color of the sunset light captured in these images.

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Oatmeal, Texas

We emerged from Big Bend Country and West Texas to land on a little ranch in the town of Oatmeal. The 2020 Census put the population of Oatmeal at 20. The town is unincorporated, technically a part of Betram in Burnet Country in the Texas Hill Country outside of Austin. The town’s claim to fame appears to be the the Oatmeal Festival held each year over Labor Day weekend. There are town offices,…

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Terlingua beyond the ghost town

I had stopped in Terlingua back in March 2023 on my way to Big Bend Ranch State Park. The town sits between the state park and the national park and is an ideal spot to get your vehicle and yourself fueled up. I did the quick detour and followed the signs to the ghost town, a collection of dwellings that are little more than a few walls and a cemetery, but still told a story of what used to be…

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Santa Elena Canyon, three views

We arrived at Santa Elena Canyon late in the day and the parking lot was nearly full, but beginning to empty. We met several group heading out as we walked toward the river. By the time we were at the mouth of the canyon, it felt like we had the place nearly to ourselves. The favored light – the one you see in the posters and postcards – hits the canyons in the morning. We were there late in the…

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Alvino House, Castolon, Big Bend

This is by the ranger station in the Castolon Historic District inside Big Bend National Park. From the National Park Service website: The Alvino House is the oldest intact adobe structure in Big Bend National Park. The building represents the everyday life of the many families who lived and farmed along the Rio Grande. This building was constructed around 1901 by Cipriano Hernandez, one of the…

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Moon setting over Pine Canyon

If I had a choice, I would have chosen a longer focal length than 35mm to make this image, but 35mm was all I had. To my eye, the moon looked a whole lot bigger, as it always seems to do compared to the images I capture. As it is, you have to kind of work to spot the faint moon. Still, the image has a certain John Ford vibe that I like.

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Century plant, not in the wild

I’ve covered quite a few miles traveling around Big Bend region, and the only agave plants I’ve seen in blood were both cultivated. I posted a while ago about the one I saw at the Chiso Basin Lodge. This one was in the garden of the Panther Junction Visitors Center, the main ranger station for Big Bend National Park. The fact that his agave was planted besides a paved walkway didn’t take away…

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Around Pine Canyon (mostly sotol, part II)

I don’t know if it was the time of year or the particular patch of the Chihuahuan Desert, but our campsite was surrounded by sotol and I couldn’t stop taking their picture.

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Around Pine Canyon (mostly sotol, part I)

On this trip to Big Bend, I twisted my knee on a hike on the South Rim Trail, which limited my mobility for a couple of days. That left me to spend a day hobbling around our Pine Canyon campsite while my partner did a little exploring. Here’s what I came up with. These were shot with my Leica M6 on the Catlabs 320 Pro, one of my favorite emulsion, especially when developed using 510 Pyro.

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The Sotol Stands Alone

Ok, so not so alone. You can see plenty of others dotting the landscape in the background. This was in the Pine Canyon area of the national park. Sotol are plentiful in the Big Bend region, but they do give off a solitary feeling, especially with the wide-open sky as a backdrop. I love the flora of the Chihuahuan Desert.

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Century Plant in Bloom

The agave is known as the century plant because the stalk that bears its flowers only emerges at the end of its life, which can be decades. This particular agave was just outside the lodge at Chiso Basin in Big Bend National Park. I don’t think I saw another one in bloom during our extensive wandering in the park.

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The Yucca

A yucca is a common sight around the Big Bend region, but this particular sample along the River Road in Big Bend National Park caught our eye. It’s the same one seen in the post about the Sierra Mederas del Carmen a couple of weeks back, an image that fits the yucca into its environment. I don’t know much about yuccas, and the ones I’ve noticed before are shorter. Last March, I was lucky enough…

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Ocotillo Leaves, Big Bend

Last time I was in far west Texas, I fell in love with the thorny Ocotillo. It was March after a wet winter – In face it had snowed the day before we arrived at Big Bend Ranch State Park – and the desert was in bloom. Many of the ocotillo were topped with red flowers. This time around, the ocotillo sported leaves – short stubby greenery that hugged the stems, hiding the thorns from a casual…

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Sierra Maderas del Carmen - across the Rio Grande

Big Bend National Park offers some spectacular landscapes, but just across the Rio Grande in Mexico, the Sierra Maderas del Carmen towers over the rive valley like a fortress. The range is part of a protected natural preserve, but far less developed and far less accessible than what we have on the U.S. side. The first two images were made with the Leica M4-P and Summicron 35 on Cinestill BWXX, a…

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Boquillas Hot Springs - Big Bend

Being a huge fan of onsen hot springs in Japan, I couldn’t pass up the chance to visit the one in Big Bend. We stopped at the trailhead that leads to the Boquillas Hot Springs to cook dinner, then visited a few other sites before sundown before heading back to take a dip in the warm waters after dark. At one time, these springs right on the banks of the Rio Grand were a huge attraction. There’s…

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Two takes on a skull in a creek bed in Big Bend

There was no way our little rental faux SUV was going to make it down even the first steep slope onto the Black Gap Trail, a high-clearance, 4×4 only trail – marked ‘primitive’ on the maps – off of the Glenn Spring Road. Our car (a more accurate description than the subcompact SUV label the manufacturer likes to use) was already taking a beating on the relatively tame Glenn Spring Road. I was…

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Candedilla Wax Works, Glenn Springs, Big Bend

Happy new year. We’re still on the Big Bend journey. There’s not much of the community that was home to almost 80 people in 1916, according to the National Park Service. From the NPS website: “During the second decade of the 20th century, there were several ranches near Glenn Spring, and the village was a social center. “In 1914, ‘Captain’ C. D. Wood and Mr. W. K. Ellis built a factory near…

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