The Milky Way rises over Barney Lake, Hoover Wilderness, Eastern Sierra, California. Photographed August 2016. Selected as a Nominee in the Nature category at the 12th Annual Black and White Spider Awards (2017).
The Milky Way at Leo Carrillo State Beach, Malibu, California. Photographed September 2017.
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.
