Playing the Cosmic Odds

There is something to be said for perseverance, for persisting until the last moment you can. You can make a lot of moral and emotional arguments for it, of course, but there's also a mathematical one: If you stick around long enough, sometimes the odds, stacked against you as they may be, will break your way. Scott Rinckenberger is a photographer from Seattle. He was in Joshua Tree National Park, finishing up a five-week trip shooting scenes in the American west. I don't want to spoil the whole...