Saguaro
Saguaro National Park
“The sun so hot, I froze to death” Here is a classic example of the struggle to capture the heat of day, the cold of night, the dryness in a photograph, much less survive. Yet nature has found a way to adapt in this environment. The Saguaro Cactus. Towering above the desert floor, with its spines and thorns to protect it, storing its own water, the Saguaro takes it’s time to grow amongst the weathered granites and gneiss soils.
The landscape stretches out into a forest of spiny plants, changing the brown of the underlying desert into a verdant layer of seemingly lush undergrowth. Waiting to tear away at careless intruders with their hooks, barbs and sharp needles. It is Chalmun's Cantina of alien characters hanging out together, with their alien forms shaped by the travails of “the sun so hot”.
Read More“The sun so hot, I froze to death” Here is a classic example of the struggle to capture the heat of day, the cold of night, the dryness in a photograph, much less survive. Yet nature has found a way to adapt in this environment. The Saguaro Cactus. Towering above the desert floor, with its spines and thorns to protect it, storing its own water, the Saguaro takes it’s time to grow amongst the weathered granites and gneiss soils.
The landscape stretches out into a forest of spiny plants, changing the brown of the underlying desert into a verdant layer of seemingly lush undergrowth. Waiting to tear away at careless intruders with their hooks, barbs and sharp needles. It is Chalmun's Cantina of alien characters hanging out together, with their alien forms shaped by the travails of “the sun so hot”.
