A few images I made this past winter and spring along the Rio Bravo del Norte on the Mexican border in West Texas.
I spent over four months solo basecamping in the same 100 mile stretch, documenting this year's awesome spring bloom in the Chihuahuan Desert and learning more about the night skies than I thought possible.
It is the darkest night sky in the lower forty-eight of the US.
Class 1 on the Bortle Scale.
I fell madly in love all over again with the place.
Hope you enjoy the images.
Road
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Milky Way Over Basecamp
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Milky Way Over Marathon
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Milky Way and Yuccas - Altuda, Texas
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Celestial Madman
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