Ben Alcocer Photography
A dead camelthorn stands on a cracked white pan with the sun flaring through its bare branches, long shadows reaching toward the camera and an orange dune behind.
Acacia Flare
A striped ridge of red and white slickrock climbs toward pale knobbed rock towers under streaks of pink cloud.
Dragontail
A single small acacia stands at the foot of an enormous orange dune whose curving crest divides the frame.
Solitude
From inside a rock alcove, the Milky Way stands over distant canyon buttes, a low ring of stacked stones on the floor in front.
Ancient Skylight
A cauliflower-textured sandstone tower rises above swirling bands of red and white slickrock under a pale pink sky.
Convolutions
Ranks of layered canyon buttes recede to a flat horizon in cool dawn light, a rock outcrop at the left edge.
Expanse
Banded badland ridges and hoodoos step away toward a flat horizon under heavy cloud breaking into pink.
Petrichor
A close view of hot spring terraces where rust, orange and white mineral crusts run into one another in lobes.
Primordial
Three rounded hoodoos stand on a sandstone pedestal against pink and blue dusk cloud.
Sentinels
A full moon lights three desert buttes while a headlight trail draws a bright line across the scrub in front.
Moonrun
Pale dunes stack into ridges and sharp shadow lines under a blue sky, wind ripples running across the flat sand in front.
Castles Made of Sand
Burning orange cloud sits over a wide canyon, a thin stretch of river visible in the shadowed gorge below.
Grandview
A close abstract of hot spring crust, orange pools rimmed by scalloped white mineral edges.
Tangerine Crisp
Eroded badland hills carry mineral colour in bands — turquoise, pink, rust and tan — with no sky in the frame.
Desert Pigments
A bare rock ledge juts over a wide canyon of layered sandstone cliffs, storm cloud breaking into colour above the far rim.
Canyon Prow
A dirt road forks in the foreground below a red butte topped by a slender spire, the Milky Way filling the sky.
Backroad
Soft pale curves of sand in flat blue-grey light, a single ridge line running diagonally across the frame.
Silk Forms
A blade of granite balances above a small arch in a pile of rounded boulders, pink cloud streaking the sky behind.
Clovis Point
A large pale boulder sits in a shallow river inside a narrow canyon, the far wall glowing orange with reflected light.
Oasis Found
Star trails streak in parallel lines above a red butte, the whole scene repeated in still water in the foreground.
Starfall
Banded red and white sandstone swells and domes under a pink and violet dusk sky, the nearest slab striped like grain.
Aeolian Echo
Rippled dune crests cross the frame in bands, each throwing a clean triangular shadow onto the next.
Ripple Effect
Sand drifts waist-deep through the doorways of an abandoned room with peeling blue and ochre walls.
Reclamation
A shallow river runs between cottonwoods toward a red sandstone peak, gold cloud breaking over the ridge behind.
Headwaters
The Milky Way arcs over a flooded canyon where pale sandstone fins stand mirrored in still, dark water.
Deep End
A river bends around a tan rock massif with a jagged crest, dark boulders in the foreground and pink sky beyond.
High Desert
The walls of a narrow slot canyon curve overhead, banded in horizontal stripes above a smooth sand floor.
Supple Sandstone
Rows of eroded badland ridges in pale yellow, pink and mauve fill the frame, dark channels running between them.
Sherbertscape
Two wooden poles rise from a hatch in a kiva roof beneath a rock overhang, the Milky Way filling the canyon beyond.
Reverence
Wind ripples run across a dune face split on a diagonal between deep shadow and low gold light.
Legato
A wooden ladder is fixed to a fallen log beside a small waterfall in a narrow red slot canyon, coloured cobbles under the shallow water.
Jacob's Ladder
A river loops in a tight horseshoe around a flat-topped butte far below the canyon rim at sunset.
Colorado Curve
An aerial of linked dunes whose lit crests curve away in a chain, their leeward faces dropping into black shadow.
Sidewinder
The Milky Way climbs above stepped canyon benches, a pale river winding through the flats far below.
Dark Rift
Eroded badland ridges interlock like fingers, warm light on their crests and cool shadow in the folds between.
Ridgelock
Slender rock spires stand on a rubble slope, ranks of mesas fading behind them in heavy golden haze.
Minarets
Swirled red and white sandstone ridges lead to two knobbed rock towers under a pink and violet twilight sky.
Candyland
Orange fire runs through the cloud over a broad canyon, the river threading pale between stepped red benches below.
Skyfire
A thick sandstone arch frames a single tree, the Milky Way rising through the opening behind it.
Portal
Ridged sandstone forms stand mirrored in a shallow rain pool beneath a sky of magenta and violet cloud.
Slickrock Coronation
Blackened dead trees stand scattered across a white clay pan in front of a towering orange dune.
The Graveyard
A jagged volcanic plug rises from flat scrub, warm-lit, with the Milky Way standing almost vertically above it.
Azimuth
Three thin crest lines catch gold light across soft grey dune slopes, everything else in flat shade.
Sun Kissed
A broad red rock formation with a cluster of spires stands over dark treetops under a wash of orange sunset cloud.
Overture
A single dead tree spreads its bare limbs against a star-flecked twilight sky, orange dunes low behind the cracked pan.
The Dictator
From a high rim, a green river bends through stacked red mesas and benches under a pale orange sunrise.
Desert Vantage
Quiver trees stand among dark dolerite boulders as the sun breaks in a starburst on the horizon between them.
Stone Orchard
Three small acacias stand evenly spaced along a pale flat, the diagonal edge of a huge orange dune behind them.
Trilateral
The Milky Way stands over pale dunes at night, faint green and gold airglow along the horizon behind them.
Luminous