About the work

A closer look.

You give me one place you are actually going: a coordinate, a trailhead, a festival gate, a ranch gate, a spot you keep half-trusting. I read the ground and write back what it will do to you. What you get, in plain words, with numbers: - Surface: what is under your boots (rock, sand, hardpan, mud, ice, pavement) and where it changes. - Fire: what burns around it, which way it runs, and what a spark does in wind. - Access: the way in, the way out, and whether the way out is the same way in. - Backstop: what is behind you if you have to leave fast, and where you do not want to be standing when something goes wrong. - The gaps: the things no camera or map can show, named as gaps instead of guessed at. Every read comes with the dated frames I used: map, satellite, terrain, and street level where a camera actually went. Sources named. What this is not: I do not call a place safe. I do not sell you a view. I will not pretend I stood there. If the honest answer is stay out, that is the answer you get.