October 29th, 2008
Scale and silhouette
(still working through some of the cattle drive pictures)
Out on the drive, the scale of the landscape often made it seem abstract. Without big landmarks, there was just land and sky – it felt a little like being out on the ocean. The lack of context made it even harder to judge distance, or to feel comfortable as part of the landscape (rather than just adrift on it).
But if you put some cattle and cowboys in the same landscape, then it all starts to make more sense. It’s still huge, but not you’ve got some gauge of its vastness, and a way into it that feels right. And iconic.