In winter, the plants that blanket the Alabama Hills are bare. The evening light shines through them, creating glowing clusters of branches that symbolize the cycles of life itself. In this case, I photographed these bushes in front of massive rocks for contrast in scale and substance. The rocks are permanent. The bushes grow, cycle through seasonal changes, and then vanish, eventually replaced by others. Nature has created both rock and plant and gives us the light to bring energy and meaning to the scene.