What remains

What remains. 2012.

This image feels like walking into the last chapter of a long story. The dead tree catches the final light, its branches lifted into a clear evening sky while the grass around it still glows gold. At its feet, a shrinking dam holds just enough water to mirror the tree, a watery echo in the middle of drought. The cracked clay and the rusting can in the foreground pull the scene back to the human world, hinting at time, neglect, and weather cycles that have gone on without us. It is both quiet and uneasy, caught between beauty and the sense that something has already passed.

24 mm • 1/30 sec • f/8.0 • ISO 100