Desert Sanctuaries: The Chinatis of the Big Bend

By Wyman Meinzer

Book Overview

Explore, as few have intimately done, the Big Bend Ranch State Park and the Chinati Mountains State Natural Area. Trust Wyman Meinzer to see as no one ever has the desert sanctuaries of the vast Big Bend and to pay tribute to their best-kept secret, the twin canyons of the Chinati Mountains, San Antonio and Los Pelos. Trust, too, that the images he delivers are as true as his eye, that the light bathing cholla at sunrise, on the eastern rim of San Antonio Canyon, is unfiltered. Meinzer is one photographer who still waits for and catches the light, even if he has only a thirty-second window. "Placing a border around the vastness of the Big Bend is typically an invitation to disappointment. Reducing its depth to a medium of two dimensions tends to flatten a landscape known to be anything but flat. Catching the ever-changing moods of light and color in fractions of a second normally embalms the scene. So how does Wyman give us photos full of expansive depth and color? His skill is his passion for the beauty of Texas and his unwavering will to get to the toughest spots. He is an adventurer first and a photographer second. Wyman feels the land and sky. He becomes a part of the terrain, and his photos make you part of the scenery." From the Introduction

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0896724883
• ISBN13: 9780896724884
• Release Date: September 2002
• Publisher: Texas Tech University Press
• Length: 79 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 8.8" x 8.0"

Customer Reviews

Recommended reading for nature enthusiasts

Desert Sanctuaries: The Chinatis Of The Big Bend by David Alloway (Naturalist at Big Bend Ranch State Park) is an amazing showcase of full-color photography highlighting the wondrous and diverse natural beauty of the Big Bend Ranch State Park and the Chinati Mountains State Natural Area. A brief informative text provides an introduction which gives way to page after page of pure visual splendor highlighting the flora, fauna, and landscapes of this rugged and beautiful terrain. Desert Sanctuaries is very highly recommended reading for nature enthusiasts in general, and on-site visitors to the Big Bend country in particular.