So, after about seven hours of all-night driving, there I was shortly after sun-up driving through the desert on an empty ribbon of paved road. It had been hours since there was another human soul to see. And really, this far out in the Southwest the only other person to see was the jogger just ahead.
Uh, what?
It was at this point I rubbed my eyes to check my vision and reconsidered my mental health. Yes, there was actually someone decked-out in jogging clothes and making their way across the desert on this road.
As it turned out, there was an event called Marathon To Marathon wherein participants began jogging in one town and finished in the town of Marathon. I had come upon the person in last place.
Still, it’s a pretty weird sight to come across in the vast emptiness of West Texas.
The above image is the second of forty-three photographs I took of the Marathon runners (only four of which are included in this gallery).
The original image is a Tagged Image Format File (TIFF) with a file data size of 35.1 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 4.01 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.