If I told you how long I spent making this photo and/or how many images I made you’d have one of two reactions:

1. WHAT THE HELL IS WRONG WITH YOU? It’s a stick. One stick. In an entire national park of stuff, you wasted that much time on…a…STICK?

or

2. Yes. That seems about right.

I do not think there’s any middle ground here.

White Sands National Park, New Mexico
photographed 12.13.2025