PHOTOGRAPHY BY SCOTT BOURLAND

Gifted with an exceptional talent for photography, Scott's photographs beautifully express the dramatic scope of the Brazos River Canyonlands.

LIST OF PHOTOGRAPHS

• ⋅ Lofty red cliffs shadow Big Rough Creek
• ⋅ A towering hoodoo along Big Rough Creek
• ⋅ Mesquites, Cedars and tall grasses covering the canyon floor along Big Rough Creek
• ⋅ Canyon walls and gently rolling hills hiding below the uniform horizon of tablelands
• ⋅ Two young Mule deer in flight across a clearing in Impossible Canyon
• ⋅ Solitary young Mule deer stands watchfully in a clearing leading down into Impossible Canyon
• ⋅ Escarpments in Impossible Canyon
• ⋅ View of Cooper Mountain from Impossible Canyon
• ⋅ Highly hued canyon walls in Impossible Canyon
• ⋅ Blue Stem illuminated by morning light
• ⋅ Detail of Blue Stem illuminated by morning light
• ⋅ Bulbous rock face worn smooth by erosion lines a narrow ravine in Impossible Canyon
• ⋅ Blooming Cholla from Impossible Canyon
• ⋅ Milk quartz accents the red-clay soils found on a canyon floor
• ⋅ Opuntia spinosbacca, (Spiny-Fruited Prickly Pear)
• ⋅ Opuntia spinosbacca, (Spiny-Fruited Prickly Pear)
• ⋅ Rugged escarpment plunges into Impossible Canyon
• ⋅ Jagged formation of red rock juxtaposes dramatically with a feathery sun-drenched Mesquite
• ⋅ Grasses along a canyon ridge trail with Mesquite trees in the background
• ⋅ Panoramic view of western horizon viewed from Impossible Canyon
• ⋅ Shoots from a Yucca plant form a starburst pattern in Impossible Canyon
• ⋅ Detail of a small shallow gulley in Impossible Canyon
• ⋅ Rugged topography in Impossible Canyon evoke images of a rough and rutted badland
• ⋅ Typical canyonlands landscape form abraded by wind and water erosion in Impossible Canyon
• ⋅ View of a water and wind sculpted draw at the headwater of Impossible Canyon
• ⋅ View of a water and wind sculpted draw at the headwater of Impossible Canyon
• ⋅ Blue Stem thriving in arid landscape of Impossible Canyon
• ⋅ Deep ravine from Impossible Canyon
• ⋅ Grasses intertwined with Mesquites
• ⋅ Morning sunlight breaks over a meadow of waist-deep grasses and vegetation
• ⋅ An immense escarpment overhanging Big Rough Creek
• ⋅ Mural depicting a cowboy resting on his mount overlooking the Brazos River Canyonlands, painted by artists of the Fisher County Art Society, in honor of the Rotan Centennial, the county seat of Fisher County
• ⋅ View of the Double Mountain Fork of the Brazos River
• ⋅ View of the Double Mountain Fork of the Brazos River
• ⋅ View of the Double Mountain Fork of the Brazos River
• ⋅ View of the Double Mountain Fork of the Brazos River
• ⋅ Cattails along the river bed of the Double Mountain Fork of the Brazos River
• ⋅ Wildlife tracks on the river bed of the Double Mountain Fork of the Brazos River
• ⋅ View from the river bed of the Double Mountain Fork of the Brazos River
• ⋅ Color variations in the soil along the river bed of the Double Mountain Fork of the Brazos River
• ⋅ Clear, shallow waters along the Double Mountain Fork of the Brazos River
• ⋅ Golden crownbeard (Verbesina encelioides) basks in the morning sun on the banks of the Double Mountain Fork of the Brazos River
• ⋅ Double Mountain, viewed from the southwest
• ⋅ View of Double Mountain from Kent County
• ⋅ Panoramic view of Double Mountain
• ⋅ A windwill glistens in sunlight above a field of grasses adjacent to Double Mountain
• ⋅ A windwill rises above a pasture in front of the western slopes of Double Mountain
• ⋅ A Meadow Lark finds a moment to rest on a barbed-wire fence
• ⋅ Panoramic view of the southern elevation of Double Mountain
• ⋅ Gnarled trunk of weathered lifeless Mesquite tree
• ⋅ Field of grasses bask in warm sunlight
• ⋅ Man-made tank provides local ranch with a critically needed reservoir of water
• ⋅ The Double Mountain Fork of the Brazos River cutting through Longhorn Valley
• ⋅ Detail of red cliffs, along the Double Mountain Fork of the Brazos River, in Longhorn Valley
• ⋅ Late autumn foliage along the banks of a canyon-fed creek that flows into the Double Mountain Fork of the Brazos River in Longhorn Valley
• ⋅ Segment of the eroded cliff façade that frames the northern rim of Longhorn Valley
• ⋅ Canyon walls slope down into the eastern floor of Longhorn Valley
• ⋅ Panoramoic view of Longhorn Valley
• ⋅ Lone deer buck stands in a wide expanse of open field, set against a backdrop of canyon walls and Mesquites
• ⋅ Palette of orange and magenta fill an autumn sunset over Impossible Canyon