Still photographers and movie photographers try, but they capture only brief snatches of landscape. The landscape up close is more colorful and dynamic then what the camera sees.
Nothing Hollywood back lots offer can compare with the real thing. The color, texture and larger and smaller details scene and landscape can only be seen foot or horse back. Between 1985 and 2000 five movies and one music video were shot at Big Bend Park. Two of the movies are Streets of Laredo (1995) directed by Joseph Sargent staring Ned Beatty, George Carlin, James Garner and Randy Quaid and Dead Man’s Walk (1996)directed by Yves Simoneau staring David Arquette, Keith Carradine, Jennifer Garner and Edward James Olmos. Big Bend State Park also was the location use in the Kix Brooks and Ronnie Dunn 1996 nominated Academy of Country Music Video of the Year - My Maria.
I love shooting directly into the sun in the morning. When I think of the desert in my mind, an image like this comes to mind... the Sun streaming past you and into you, invisible but warm.
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