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It was on a Thursday, riding to work when I had a small panic attack realizing that the summer solstice was yesterday. Not something normally that would insight anxiety, but I had planned on going out to the Sun Tunnels on or around the solstice and it just dawned on me that I almost missed it.

The first time I went out to the tunnels was in May…almost sad in a way. I am fifty-two and never ventured out to see the landart that had been there since my pre-teen years. Though it is in the middle of nowhere it is estimated, though there is really no way of verifying, that over two million people have visited them. Earlier that year I had bought, but not yet taken possession of, a brand new Honda Africa Twin motorcycle, the subject of perhaps another writing. While I waited for it to come I researched and I found that I needed a 300 mile break-in period. I decided to do that all at once and the Sun Tunnels seemed like a good destination to exceed that mark, giving me a variety...

I started with black and white. Not that I am so old that I pre-date colored film, but for high school the chemicals for the dark room were simple and straightforward enough for a sophomore photo class. I borrowed my dad's Exakta 35mm camera, which he had years before I was born. It was a wonderful camera with a focal circle in the center, which was split in half horizontally, so when I dialed the image un-split, then it was focused. It had a leather camera case which protected the lens and snapped right to the camera body. I thought my old camera was better than any of the newer ones my classmates used. I loved the class, and while my classmates were making fake IDs in the darkroom I was making a big photo of a big barn the size...