Time’s returning arrow
All photographs document time, if only for an instant. Although I often used long time exposures in my earlier night photography, recently I have been using very long daytime exposures to trace the daily passage of the sun and its seasonal movement north and south. While our human problems sometimes seem overwhelming, it’s both humbling and strangely reassuring to be reminded while watching the sun arc across the sky and etch its image onto my film that we are just specks on a big spinning rock that’s been circling for a few billion years around an enormous burning orb, itself only a tiny mote in an incomprehensively large and old universe.