The Big Bend Experience

Many National Parks are breathtaking with their monuments and landmarks that amaze and inspire us. But as beautiful as they all are, you don’t fall in love with every park. Sometimes you get to a park that just grabs you by every fiber of your heart and soul. Big Bend National Park is one of those parks for me.
The landscape stretches over 800,000 acres and changes in every direction. The Chisos Mountain Range is most famous for being completely enclosed in the park. While inside the Chisos Basin, one is surrounded by a breathtaking 360-degree view of towering mountains, and watching the sunset right through the carved out “window” of the Chisos Mountains is the perfect way to end the day. Unless of course, you have rested up and want to experience the milky way on one of those dark, clear nights. The Basin is the perfect place for this awe-inspiring and humbling experience, that lets you take a peek into the universe.
Through my photographs, I hope to inspire people to explore some of this magnificent and ever-changing geology that waits at every trail. The Ernst Tinaja waterhole is surrounded by vibrant rust colored swirling striations of limestone, whereas in the Cerro Castellan you’ll find layers of white volcanic ash contrasted by deep red and black volcanic rocks, all with a backdrop of superb desert scenery, and rose-toned limestone mountains. Then, just when you thought it can’t get more astonishing, there is the majestic Santa Elena Canyon with its cliffs rising 1500 feet vertically on both sides of the Rio Grande, which divides Mexico and the United States.

Christiane

10/9/2019