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Jeremy Green “Holy Cow” 1/7/23

The sky is so rich with stars and planets on dark nights in the Big Bend of Texas. I’m out in it again, this time for Condé Nast instead of just for myself. There is so much nothingness that everything takes on significance. Last time I was here a few months past, there was no moon unlike tonight’s bright moonlit sky, and this longhorn icon had a blanket of the Milky Way behind it. I wanted to get it all in, but the only way to do that in a single photographic frame was to shoot a grid with a very wide lens and stitch it together. In this way I got just what it looked like.

Jeremy Green “Ocotillo Zebra” 7/30/22

Necessity is the mother of invention, but it can also be the seed of genius. In the Big Bend area of southwest Texas, providing shade is an art form. This is my spot all this week. This kind of broken shade, made by laying readily available ocotillo across overhead beams, is perfect in that it blends hard sun with coal black shade. It’s visually stimulating, yet it’s also soothing. It’s loud and quiet at the same time. Even a gringo can sit outside for long spells enjoyably.