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Big Bend National Park

Big Bend National Park, Ocotillo Field, Sunset

Big Bend Ocotillo

A Big Bend Ocotillo photographed at Sunset near Maverick Junction at the Western entrance to the park in the spring of 2025.

Night Photography, Old Vehicles, Stars, Study Butte

Old Plymouth

An old Plymouth photographed along Road Runner Road in Study Butte, near Terlingua TX in the Spring of 2024.

Big Bend National Park, Focus Stacking, Grapevine Hills Trail, Texas Wildflowers

A Desert Marigold

A Desert Marigold photographed along the Grapevine Hills Trail in Big Bend National Park in the spring of 2023.

Big Bend Bluebonnet, Big Bend National Park, Focus Stacking, Texas Wildflowers

Big Bend Bluebonnets

Big Bend Bluebonnets photographed near the Santa Elena Canyon in Big Bend National Park in the spring of 2023.

Big Bend Bluebonnet, Big Bend National Park, Focus Stacking, Grapevine Hills Trail, Texas Wildflowers

Big Bend Bluebonnet Flower

A Big Bend Bluebonnet flower that i photographed along the Grapevine Hills Trail in Big Bend National Park in the spring of 2019.

Big Bend National Park, Focus Stacking, Grapevine Hills Trail, Texas Wildflowers

Desert Marigold

A Desert Marigold photographed along the Grapevine Hills Trail in Big Bend National Park. The flower was photographed during the spring of 2019.

Big Bend National Park, Dorgan House

Dorgan House at Dusk

The Dorgan house at Dusk with Santa Elena Canyon in the background and the Milky Way overhead. Both located within the Big Bend National Park.

Allionia incarnata, Ernst Tinaja, Flowers, Pink Windmills, Trailing Allionia, Trailing Four O'Clock, Trailing Windmills

Trailing Windmills

A pair of Trailing Windmills photographed in the fall of 2018 in the Earnst Tinaja area of Big Bend National Park.

Big Bend National Park, Lost Mine Trail, Sunrise, Sunrise Colors

Lost Mine Sunrise

Sunrise along the Lost Mine Trail in Big Bend National Park. I captured this photo after a 2.4 mile hike up the popular trail.

Big Bend National Park, Glen Springs, Sunrise

Chisos Moonset

I photographed this moonset over the Chisos mountain last December during my fall trip to Big Bend NP. The sunrise light was perfect.

Badlands, Big Bend National Park, Moonrise, Sunset

Badlands of Big Bend

Another sunset photograph of the Badlands of Big Bend NP. This location is now a regular stop during my photography trips to the park.

Big Bend National Park, Castelon Mountain

Moon in Motion

I just returned from my trip to Big Bend. I photographed this moon sequence during my first evening there using my camera’s intervalometer.

Big Bend National Park

Chimneys Trail

Chimneys Trail in Big Bend National Park is a fairly easy hike that leads to a nice geological formation called the Chimneys.

Dry Riverbed

I captured this photograph of the Dry Riverbed along the Santa Elena Canyon last spring during my last visit to Big Bend National Park.

Desert Flora Sunset

I photographed this desert flora sunset during my trip to Big Bend NP last year. The clouds were sparse but the desert flowers were amazing.

Big Bend National Park, Milky Way, Old Maverick's Road

Luna’s Milky Way

I captured this photo of Luna’s Milky Way last April during a trip to the Big Bend National Park with some of my photography friends.

Ladder-backed Woodpecker - BBNP

Disheveled

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I spotted this Ladder-backed Woodpecker earlier this week while relaxing after a long day of photographing the Big Bend National Park.

Big Bend National Park, Havard's fiddleleaf, Nama havardii, Sierra Del Chino

Fiddleleaf

The flower below, Havard’s fiddleleaf (Nama havardii) was one of the flowers that was new to my collection and is a rare plant as well.

Badlands, Big Bend National Park, Sunset

Badlands

During a rip to the Big Bend National Park, I noticed this very interesting area near the park’s western entrance. We labeled it “The Badlands”.

Big Bend National Park

Spheroidal

The BBNP is an amazing geological wonderland. There are many interesting rock formations impacted by Spheroidal Weathering along the Grapevine Hills Trail.