[3] McCaw travels to remote places to capture different apparent movements of the sun, including the Arctic Circle in Alaska, the Galápagos Islands and the Mojave Desert.
[4] McCaw's earlier work used a 7×17 inch view camera to create large-format negatives from which he made platinum prints.
[5] Projects following Sunburn include work with a modified Cirkut camera, resulting in exposures that can take more than 24 hours.
[9] The Metropolitan Museum of Art writes about the series that: In 2003 McCaw, a photographer based in San Francisco, began taking pictures of the sun.
The intensity of the light also causes solarization, reversing the tonal values so that the negative print appears as a positive image.