"Ancient Passage" Arches National Park - Grand County, Utah (2022) Delicate Arch is a threshold that predates permission. Before borders, checkpoints, credentials, and the structures we use to regulate our lives, the world offered only physical limits. Stone, distance, gravity, darkness, time. The view of the Milky Way through the natural wonder reminds us that there is a world of access to us that we've chosen to obscure. Whether well-intentioned or otherwise, generation after generation we've layered rules that now dictate how we function. As we step away from our computers, organizations, governments and rules we can look to nature to remind us that though some obstacles are necessary, they exist by our hand. Captured on a Sony Alpha a7 III using a Sony FE 16–35mm f/2.8 GM lens at 24mm. The exposure was 13 seconds at f/2.8, shot from a tripod to preserve the night sky and the structure of the arch. Final processing through Adobe Lightroom was limited to tonal, color, contrast, and clarity adjustments; no generative elements were added. I currently maintain all rights to this image and upon minting, will release under CC0.