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\"Spooky<\/a>

Spooky Gulch in the Grand Staircase-Escalante Monument, Utah. \u00a91999 Derek Henry Flood<\/p><\/div>\n

New York-\u00a0<\/strong>The Pulitzers were announced yesterday, catching me off guard as usual. I don’t follow the journalistic contest circuit as I once sort of did much earlier in my career. I read through the winners and finalists realizing I was a degree of separation or two from a couple of them. In the social media era, it is of course possible to be connected to greatness without actually being within reach of it. Part of the drawback in working behind tall paywalls or doing work for non-Anglophone outlets is that you might as well be hiding under a rock in terms of the possibilities of fame and collegial recognition.<\/p>\n

I began my interest in photography \u00a0not with war and pestilence but with quiet landscapes. Otherwise I would have been in Kosovo when these images were taken rather than driving around the Southwest scouting once obscure locales. My goal was to be an independent explorer rather than a prize-winning journo undergirded by insider media gatekeepers operating under an opaque hiring code.<\/p>\n

These are some transparencies from that pre-9\/11 era.<\/p>\n

\"Saguaro<\/a>

Saguaro National Park under the night sky in Arizona’s Sonnoran Desert along the Mexican frontier. \u00a91999 Derek Henry Flood<\/p><\/div>\n

\"An<\/a>

An arch inside Spooky Gulch being light up by reflected sunlight beaming down from the crevice above. \u00a91999 Derek Henry Flood<\/p><\/div>\n

\"The<\/a>

The sinews of Spooky Gulch with high contrast of light and dark. \u00a91999 Derek Henry Flood<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

New York-\u00a0The Pulitzers were announced yesterday, catching me off guard as usual. I don’t follow the journalistic contest circuit as I once sort of did much earlier in my career. I read through the winners and finalists realizing I was…<\/p>\n

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