When faced with deciphering the markings left by our ancestors less than ten millennia ere, we invoke sympathetic magic for the hunt, the thirteen full moons of some solar years, and other fantasies that pretend at the truth. And so, a rock face that greets the southron Sun day after day is perhaps a harbinger of our First Contact with a starfaring civilization. How will we converse with an alien civilization descended from the stars if we cannot speak the language of our ancestors? How will we decipher that first message, even if it’s a simple pictograph? Photographed July 2021.
Gorgeous junipers frame the Milky Way rising over the Eastern Sierras at Barney Lake, in the Hoover Wilderness, Eastern Sierras, California. Photographed July 30, 2016.
The Milky Way rises majestically over Robinson Lakes in the Hoover Wilderness, Eastern Sierras, California. Photographed July 31, 2016.
