Big Bend National Park

In October 2022, I brought my Konica Minolta out to West Texas with a roll of 35mm film. As a native Texan who grew up in the Coastal Plains, seeing Big Bend National Park for the first time felt limitless. So limitless that I traveled back to Big Bend to the same campsite with the same camera + film set up in April of 2023. The Chisos Mountain Range is as vast as the Gulf of Mexico, and I sought to capture this perspective on film. I am a firm believer that photographs speak for themselves, however, the choices behind each step in the process are intentional. The Konica Minolta Zoom 160c point-and-shoot camera captures a point of view that feels like a memory as if you are looking at an old family album. Kodak ColorPlus200 film provides a balanced color profile that performs well with under and over-exposure making it a sure choice for the baking sun of West Texas. After standard processing, the negatives were scanned using a Noritsu negative scanner, enhancing the desert landscape's soft muted tones. Together these choices captured my slant of Big Bend National Park.