After the Fire, Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming 1998

Marion Belanger made this photograph, *After the Fire, Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming*, using gelatin silver print. Just imagine her there, in what was once a lush, green space. She's not trying to pretty it up. Instead, she captures this ashen landscape, this destruction, with such stark detail. I wonder what was going through her mind, looking through the lens, framing this scene? There is a kind of beauty in the way the light falls across the fallen trees, like a ballet of shadows. It’s all about texture and tone, isn’t it? The rough bark against the smooth, fallen trunks. That's photography: a conversation, a way of seeing and feeling. When one artist shares their view, it inspires the rest of us to look closer, to find our own way of seeing the world anew.