Oasis of Stone, Visions of Baja California by Miguel Ángel de la Cueva, July 8, 2013

Oasis of Stone, Visions of Baja California
by Miguel Ángel de la Cueva, Associate Fellow, International League of Conservation Photographers (iLCP), July 8, 2013

Oasis of Stone: Visions of Baja California by Miguel Ángel de la Cueva, June 29, 2011

Photograph © Miguel Ángel de la Cueva

Oasis of Stone: Visions of Baja California 

by Miguel Ángel de la Cueva, International League of Conservation Photographers (iLCP), June 29, 2011

In our daily lives we have traded the marvelous for the commercial – the world’s eloquence for mere comfort – and fail to understand the source of our alienation, our sadness. As a photographer, my mission is to help break through the artificial world that we have all helped to create. My journey first began at age 16 when I encountered the Sonoran Desert while traveling by car in Arizona. I remember with crystal clarity the dramatic and eroded landscape, along with my own need to become that elemental distance. It was years later, in 1995, that I reached the Baja California Peninsula and found myself face-to-face with the majestic Sierra la Giganta. Following its contours that disappeared into the Gulf of California, I felt awestruck and sensed the need to share the force and beauty of this vision.