White Sands National Monument de-light
This photo was taken in March, 2020, looking across glorious, light-reflecting gypsum sands of the White Sands National Monument, a stunning part of New Mexico I had never seen and probably will not again, not far from where the Trinity Site near Alamogordo saw the first detonation of a nuclear weapon. It was dusk, we were lucky to be there when these complex rolling clouds spread their wings across the sky, giving me a picture I thought might have come from the famous Look magazine, with one of whose photographers, Archie Lieberman, I had the privilege, back when I was much younger, of learning from while studying in Chicago.