Cecely Sterling-Maisel

Series

Smoke

2026 · 6 photographs

Road tripping through Nevada, drove too close to comfort through a wildfire (although it made for cool pictures).

A woman driving with one hand on the wheel, a wildfire burning across the valley beyond the windscreen.
A woman driving with one hand on the wheel, a wildfire burning across the valley beyond the windscreen.A straight dirt road running to a vanishing point across pale grassland under a heavy bank of smoke.A line of geese crossing a smoke-graded evening sky above dark mountains.A column of wildfire smoke lit orange by the sun rises above a reservoir, with one small lit building on the far shore.A person stands beside a pickup truck at the roadside watching wildfire smoke pour across the sky above a reservoir.A truck's headlights on an empty desert road at dusk beneath a low ceiling of wildfire smoke.