On January 2 of this year John West, who lives in the Black Range, took the photograph shown above. It immediately created a great deal of consternation. It was not taken in the Black Range, in fact quite far away - west of Phoenix. The vegetation was not the Black Range type - but Sonoran. The focal point was not natural history, instead a satellite launch.
But it is the best photograph I have seen in a long time. And I dare say, I see a lot of photographs. And, of course, we are talking subjectivity here, major subjectivity, and lest I drift into the interpretive side of art - probably the type of discourse I hated most as an undergrad - let me just say that I like it and leave it at that.
Why did it make it onto The Natural History Blog? ‘cause.