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A young energy company that buys aging oil and gas fields and brings them back to efficient production asked for images for their offices. Rather than pictures of the fields, I saw the work as fine art about the idea of the business, made for the people who would live with it every day and the visitors who would walk through the door.

For the entry lobby, the images tell guests the company's story of taking the old and making it new. In the High Plains of West Texas, the company's highly sophisticated plant sits in a dark-sky area with little light pollution, which called for a night image of the operation beneath the stars.

For the large open office where the employees work, I made a 10-foot panorama from seven medium format images, taken in the Southern Rockies near Durango, Colorado. From across the room, it reads as a wonderful landscape at the base of the San Juan Mountains. Walk up close, and the medium format detail reveals the wells hidden in the brush, the very assets the people in that room work on every day.