Terlingua Wood Print

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This image was taken near Big Bend National Park in the Texas ghost town of Terlingua. The name Terlingua (three tongues) was coined many years ago by Mexican herders, and was named after the Terlingua (three tongues) Creek which runs (sometimes) nearby. It is located outside of Big Bend National Park near the Rio Grande River that separates Texas and Mexico. This is an area that was roamed by some of Texas' most violent Native Indian tribes...the Comanche, Apache and the Shawnee. It was not a hospitable land, but in the 1800's cinnabar (a red-mercury sulfide, from which mercury can be extracted) was discovered in abundance at Terlingua and soon became home to the historic Chisos Mining Company. At one time Terlingua had a population of around 2,000 miners who all enjoyed the towns jail, church, ice cream parlor and theater. It is now home to several dozen living inhabitants, numerous accounts of non-living inhabitants and a multitude of rattlesnakes. A few buildings remain, man...

I am a digital photography artist. I love the things I see all around me from the mundane to the phenomenal, and if I can capture one of those things in a moment in time, I am happy. Beauty in this world makes my heart smile. Sadness and ugliness in this world makes my heart cry. If I can show the beauty or the ugliness through a lens, it makes me feel as though I have accomplished something special. Most of my work is photography. I play with some of my images digitally to bring different dimensions to my work, giving some of it an artistic look...abstract, watercolor, pencil...there are so many things that can be accomplished artistically on the computer. I take my work seriously, life not so seriously. I just want to observe,...