NASA Pod Under the Milky Way Size:48x64 I worked close to a

I worked close to a cluster of prickly pear at the edge of the rim

This became one of the most difficult focus-stacked images I’ve worked on

its core rich with dust lanes

Wind-carved

NASA Pod Under the Milky Way Size:48x64 I worked close to aBig Bend Region, Texas There are nights in Big Bend when the sky takes over completely (most nights actually). The mountains go quiet. The desert floor settles into shadow. And then the Milky Way lifts itself off the horizon and stretches across the basin like something alive. This object, which weve come to call the NASA Pod for obvious reasons, sits abandoned in that vastness. Its nothing more than a cement mixer left behind in a remote corner of