Path Across the Bluffs, White Bluffs, Washington, 2024

Description

This photograph looks away from the river and toward the land itself. A narrow path cuts through the center of the frame, climbing across the pale grasses and low vegetation of the White Bluffs landscape. The sky hangs heavy above the slope, giving the scene a quiet, unsettled feeling. Unlike the broader river views from the overlook, this image is more immediate. It places the viewer on the ground, moving through the dry shrub-steppe rather than looking across it from a distance. The path becomes the central subject, a simple line of passage through an exposed and weathered place. In black and white, the grasses, trail, and sky separate into soft tonal fields, emphasizing the spare beauty of the White Bluffs above the Columbia River.