This month’s NatGeoMag cover captures America’s beauty in one of the most hard-to-reach places
, requires tenacity. First he has to reach a site, often a challenge, and then he has to stay behind the camera for hours—sometimes more than a full day—all to capture thousands of frames for a single composite image showing time’s march across a landscape. For the cover photo of the September issue, he hiked through shin-deep mud to reach a remote beach in Washington State while being stalked by a cougar.
Capturing a landscape over time in a single composite image is challenging for a number of reasons, Wilkes says. For this project, some sites were remote and required a strenuous hike or even camping, and of course, weather played a key role as well. “It was a celestial experience but also a spiritual connection that makes you think back to earlier civilizations and, in particular, Indigenous culture—how it embraced what [people] were seeing in the stars and how that translated into their daily lives.”
In his images Wilkes hopes readers will feel a sense of beauty and awe and perhaps be motivated to get more involved to protect these and other places. of the Citadel in Bears Ears, the park’s main landmark, which holds the remnants of Anasazi cliff dwellings. Wilkes immediately knew the unique physical feature, shaped into a sort of bridge, would be conducive to the day-to-night treatment.
He supports preserving natural habitats not only for wildlife but also because of their historical significance—especially in the case of Bears Ears. The park is rich with artifacts and structures that have been revealed over the years as the elements scoured the landscape.His goal of capturing the full moon and planetary alignment is ultimately connected to Indigenous cultures since some used the stars in navigation and the moon to track the year.
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