Late Afternoon Santa Elena

by Linda Cox

Title

Late Afternoon Santa Elena

Artist

Linda Cox

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Digital Art - Digital Photography

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This is an original photograph of the dark, mysteriously beautiful "Santa Elena Canyon. It was taken as the late afternoon sunset was lighting the boulders of the giant wall, looking like the lights in a huge building complex were just beginning to come on...an exceptionally unnerving and yet beautiful occurrence. Making one wonder what was happening behind those windows, knowing the only inhabitants lived there only in the dark or the light of the moon or sun. The original photograph has been digitally altered in order to give you a beautiful work of art to share in your home of place of business.

This is an image of some of the magnificent cliffs of the Santa Elena Canyon Walls on the Mexico side of the Rio Grand River that runs through Big Bend National Park in Texas. Big Bend is a part of the Chichuhuan Desert and the Rio Grande runs through it.The Rio Grands River is a large, and probably the most famous river in Texas. It forms an international border. Inside the Big Bend National Park you will find sheer, towering walls that rise above the river separating the two countries of the United States and Mexico. Absolutely spectacular. It is in this area that the Rio Grande River makes a dramatic detour and creates it's deep, big bend along the Texas-Mexico border. This is an area basically unchanged for centuries, except for a few campgrounds and one hotel in the Chisos Mountains. What you see, hear and feel when you are in the Big Bend area is what the Apache and Comanche Indians, invading Spaniards, settlers, miners and smugglers saw, heard and felt hundreds of years ago. It is a place that you don't just decide to visit in an afternoon because it is miles and miles and miles from anywhere except the little ghost town of Terlingua. You should definitely visit this beautiful place, but plan to spend a day or two or more just getting there, and then a day or two or more just seeing the place. Big Bend National Park sprawls over an area larger than Rhode Island, covering more than 800,000 acres. Well worth the time and effort.

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March 16th, 2019

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