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I’ve been asked to film and photograph many things, all across the world. I have been shooting video for The Times since 2011 and manage a small team of video journalists who specialize in cinematography. But this winter was the first time I was assigned to photograph something that is invisible: methane gas. It was not easy.

Methane is a main component of natural gas and is warming our planet at an alarming rate. If everyone could see it, we might feel differently about how we regulate it.

This November, the climate investigative reporter Hiroko Tabuchi and I traveled to the Permian Basin in Texas, America’s largest oil field, with the mission of showing people what they cannot see with their own eyes.