In December of 2010 I spent six days hiking Big Bend National Park. After getting lost in the desert for a few hours of an evening during those six days (documented later in this gallery), I began extensively consulting my map.
However, the majority of my “map time” still occurred well after the 2010 Park visit—while preparing the narratives for this photographic gallery, in fact. I make note of this here due to the necessity of deducing the location of the site in the photograph above. I am about 99% sure that this is where the northern end of Toll Mountain points to the tapered, south-facing geology on which sits Casa Grande Peak (as viewed from the west looking eastward).
In this photograph the half-mile or so expanse between the two appears “compressed” and thus the setting sun lends to the vague impression of an incomplete volcano opening (which it most certainly is not).
The original image is a Tagged Image Format File (TIFF) with a file data size of 35 megabytes (MB).
For display on this web site the TIFF was duplicated and the duplicate re-formatted as a Joint Photographic Experts Group (JPG/JPEG) image with a file data size of 3.96 MB. To approximate detail visible at the time of capture the image was sharpened as necessary and resampled via the Photoshop Bicubic Sharpen algorithm. The re-sampling increases the image resolution from 300 Dots Per Square Inch (DPI) to 360 DPI.
Unless otherwise noted the image was corrected to offset color shift and balance. This restores black (shadows), white (highlights) and neutral gray (neutral mid-tones).
• An unnumbered image is the only one of the subject matter.
• A number corresponds to the sequential order in a subject-matter-related sequence.
• The letter “B” indicates color correction to approximate what was visible when the image was captured.
• The letter “C” indicates enhancement beyond an approximation of what was visible at the time of capture.