Gathering the Desert

Artwork ID# 2306-31626-8

In Escalante-Grand Staircase National Monument the rising sun sets fire to a desert pool of water and tumbleweed as ice begins to form on its surface. What stopped me and held me to make a photograph was the peculiarity of the shapes of the tumbleweed, and its place atop liquid water being turned into a solid yet fragile texture across the reflections of sunrise painted clouds. After rising at 4 a.m., hoping to capture some of the magic of visual transformations in light and color, this was my first unforeseen gift of a new day.

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