I like to do a little photography from time to time. I've been to Big Bend NP / Terlingua more times than I can count. Here's a few:
Terlingua Ghost Town Cemetery. They still plant folks there.
Cattail Falls. This required an unscheduled quick trip to the park. It doesn't "fall" this good very often. I hauled a 4x5 film camera in there and shot it on black and white film too.
Delta 100 in a 4x5
Mariscal Mine. One of my favorite sites to visit. They mined cinnabar then burned the ore to vaporize the mercury in a big wood fired furnace (seen just below the 3 condensers). They hauled wood in from 100's of miles away after they cut everything out of the high Chisos. There was a bottling plant on the back side. The mercury was used for bomb fuses in WWI and WWII. The mine never made money.
Santa Elena Canyon by Moonlight (if you look close you'll see the stars in the sky. Another last minute planned trip. I happened to check the alignment of the rising moon with the canyon and it was near perfect. I ended up shooting it a night earlier than planned because the hostess told me that the weather was going south by morning. She was right. BTW - that's the RIo Grande River. It's literally the border between TX and MX.
Rain in the desert is magical. Shot from Sotol Vista
Sotol Vista Sunset
East side. Boquillas Canyon.
Boquillas Canyon at Sunset
Cerro Castellan (night). The white formation is called tuff. It starts as powdery ash.
The Rio Grande river backed into a normally dry creek. Sometimes we get gifts from nature
Sometimes I'll make a trip specifically to shoot a timelapse. There are apps that will figure out when something, like the center of the Milky Way, rises over a certain place or feature, like Carousel Mountain in Big Bend. Hopefully I did this right. I have a lot more from other states and locations in TX but this'll do...
Terlingua Ghost Town Cemetery. They still plant folks there.
Cattail Falls. This required an unscheduled quick trip to the park. It doesn't "fall" this good very often. I hauled a 4x5 film camera in there and shot it on black and white film too.
Delta 100 in a 4x5
Mariscal Mine. One of my favorite sites to visit. They mined cinnabar then burned the ore to vaporize the mercury in a big wood fired furnace (seen just below the 3 condensers). They hauled wood in from 100's of miles away after they cut everything out of the high Chisos. There was a bottling plant on the back side. The mercury was used for bomb fuses in WWI and WWII. The mine never made money.
Santa Elena Canyon by Moonlight (if you look close you'll see the stars in the sky. Another last minute planned trip. I happened to check the alignment of the rising moon with the canyon and it was near perfect. I ended up shooting it a night earlier than planned because the hostess told me that the weather was going south by morning. She was right. BTW - that's the RIo Grande River. It's literally the border between TX and MX.
Rain in the desert is magical. Shot from Sotol Vista
Sotol Vista Sunset
East side. Boquillas Canyon.
Boquillas Canyon at Sunset
Cerro Castellan (night). The white formation is called tuff. It starts as powdery ash.
The Rio Grande river backed into a normally dry creek. Sometimes we get gifts from nature
Sometimes I'll make a trip specifically to shoot a timelapse. There are apps that will figure out when something, like the center of the Milky Way, rises over a certain place or feature, like Carousel Mountain in Big Bend. Hopefully I did this right. I have a lot more from other states and locations in TX but this'll do...
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