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Into The Badlands
The Milky Way rises above the "Valley Of Dreams" in the Bisti Badlands of New Mexico.
After an extensive and confusing drive across the Bisti/De-na-zin Wilderness we arrived in the Valley Of Dreams. I started up the Giai GPS app and Wayne Pinkston, Chris Wrey, Sandra Herber and I started into the valley at around 4:00pm. After surveying the area and marking some of the more interesting formations, we returned to the cars for some snacks and rest. There were 4 in the group and at midnight we trekked off once again into the valley, although now its was very dark, so dark that without my headlamp on I couldn't see my hand in front of my face. The movie "Pitch Black" immediately came to mind, and the hair started to rise on the back of my neck. I scoured the area with my torchlight and moved on somewhat at comfort. As we crossed over the ravine and climbed up to the plateau I could here sounds like pebbles falling here and there which reminded me of another movie where a young Jedi is ambushed by the sand people. I think my imagination went into overdrive and I felt a rush of adrenaline. To my relief the path crested and we dropped into the "area of interest" which is a sprawling valley rutted with gutters and crevices as far as the eye could see with maligned and mutated shapes jutting up all over the place, except for now its just eerie shapes silhouetted against a starry sky so bright it almost makes you dizzy looking at it there on this dark moonless night.
We used one small 125 LED panel and bounched that light off some of the rocks off to the right side which picked up some of the color of the natural rock and casts that onto the scene. a tip learned from Wayne.
For more information about the LLL technique(LowLevelLighting) you can visit lowlevellighting.org
Thanks for taking the time to take a look at my photos, and as always, your views, comments, faves, and support are greatly appreciated!!
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Into The Badlands
The Milky Way rises above the "Valley Of Dreams" in the Bisti Badlands of New Mexico.
After an extensive and confusing drive across the Bisti/De-na-zin Wilderness we arrived in the Valley Of Dreams. I started up the Giai GPS app and Wayne Pinkston, Chris Wrey, Sandra Herber and I started into the valley at around 4:00pm. After surveying the area and marking some of the more interesting formations, we returned to the cars for some snacks and rest. There were 4 in the group and at midnight we trekked off once again into the valley, although now its was very dark, so dark that without my headlamp on I couldn't see my hand in front of my face. The movie "Pitch Black" immediately came to mind, and the hair started to rise on the back of my neck. I scoured the area with my torchlight and moved on somewhat at comfort. As we crossed over the ravine and climbed up to the plateau I could here sounds like pebbles falling here and there which reminded me of another movie where a young Jedi is ambushed by the sand people. I think my imagination went into overdrive and I felt a rush of adrenaline. To my relief the path crested and we dropped into the "area of interest" which is a sprawling valley rutted with gutters and crevices as far as the eye could see with maligned and mutated shapes jutting up all over the place, except for now its just eerie shapes silhouetted against a starry sky so bright it almost makes you dizzy looking at it there on this dark moonless night.
We used one small 125 LED panel and bounched that light off some of the rocks off to the right side which picked up some of the color of the natural rock and casts that onto the scene. a tip learned from Wayne.
For more information about the LLL technique(LowLevelLighting) you can visit lowlevellighting.org
Thanks for taking the time to take a look at my photos, and as always, your views, comments, faves, and support are greatly appreciated!!
Have a great weekend ahead my friends!! :)
Please do me a favor and follow me on my other social sites found below:
500px | Facebook | Flickr | Google+ | Instagram | Youtube
Copyright 2017©Eric Gail