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What Photographing Every Texas State Park Taught a Landscape Photographer

What Photographing Every Texas State Park Taught a Landscape Photographer

The image is split: on the left, a desert landscape with mountains, rocks, and cacti under a colorful sunset sky; on the right, an illuminated path with lanterns leads to a white church at night under swirling star trails.

At 1:45 a.m., photographer Maegan Lanham left camp and drove 54 miles down a backcountry road. She then hiked three and a half miles into a dark canyon, before gaining more than 1,300 feet to reach a ridge she had never stood on, for a sunrise that lasted minutes. She had no guarantee it would be worth the effort. That kind of dedication follows her everywhere, including a goal few photographers would think to chase, let alone finish: photographing every state park in Texas.

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What Photographing Every Texas State Park Taught a Landscape Photographer