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"It's all about that little frozen moment in time. Between ascention and descent: Floating." - Kim Henry
From episode 149: youtu.be/n6Bfk5yZX7g
Prest evit ar c'huzh heol / Deiseil airson dol fodha na grèine / Réidh do luà na gréine / Ready for the sunset
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Graian e l'Espitau /Grayan-et-l’Hôpital
Shadows begin to shorten and the sun allows the detail on the 800 year old dead and blackened tree to show and add another wow factor.
Deadvlei is a clay pan, about 2 km from Sossusvlei. A notable feature of Deadvlei is that it used to be an oasis with several acacia trees; afterwards, the river that watered the oasis changed its course. The pan is thus punctuated by blackened, dead acacia trees, in vivid contrast to the shiny white of the salty floor of the pan and the intense orange of the dunes. This creates a particularly fascinating and surrealistic landscape, that appears in innumerable pictures and has been used as a setting for films and videos.
Just one more from Death Valley before I switch gears for a bit. Here's the famous Mesquite Dunes, with one of my first galactic core captures of 2020.
Ridiculously, on the morning I took this photo I left my warm bed wearing nothing more than shorts and a thin long-sleeve t-shirt (you know, for warmth). Based on previous days, I had wrongly estimated the morning's temps to be somewhere around 60 degrees...a bit chilly for shorts but no biggie. I trekked out to my pre-scouted, nearly track-free spot, and promptly froze as I faced a 15-mph headwind that blew right through my clothing. And maybe even my skin.
After about 15 minutes I switched to a more sheltered location (seen here), where I would trip my shutter and then run downhill to get out of the wind and do some jumping jacks.
To put it simply, after about 45 minutes I was completely frozen, and I stayed out well longer than was prudent. Why? I have no idea. I had a giant bag of cold-weather gear back at my motel room, all ready to just be put on and worn.
Anyway, after the cold gave way to numb which gave way to burning, I radioed by buddy Jeff and let him know that I was heading back to the car and that I was a fool. When I got back to the car I started it up, and, yes, it was around 40 degrees that morning.
"The lesson?" you're probably not asking, since you likely haven't read this far. It doesn't do you any good to bring cold-weather gear if you don't actually bring your cold-weather gear when you shoot.
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I fully explained this one in the learning group (including the tools!) Check this out here: fb.com/groups/ericpare
A lone backpacker trudges off into the dunes of White Sands National Monument. Unedited, straight off the camera.
A snap looking out out towards a sunset on Crosby beach over the grasses on the sanddunes.
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When I think of sand dunes and photography, I think black and white. The natural white environment coupled with shadow areas is just made for B/W interpretation. Here are my attempts to capture the beauty of White Sands National Park in this medium. Most are shot in hard light, but some are early or late in the day, some even approach high key. White Sands looks great in any wardrobe.
In late October, I made a trip to New Mexico to shoot the dunes at White Sands National Park. I hooked up with my close friend and photographer, Sandra Herber. www.flickr.com/photos/sandraherber/ We were at White Sands four days, made eight excursions into the dunes, hiked over 20 miles and shot close to 2,000 photos between us.
We are posting our images at the same time and it will be interesting to see how we handled being in the same locations together. For safety reasons and for the fun of it, we hiked the dunes together, sometimes pointing our lenses in the same direction, other times wandering apart. I am sure we got some similar shots, but it will be interesting to see those that are different as we each have our own way of looking at things, as well as having different focal length coverage. Then there is the processing aspect.
To say White Sands is magical is an understatement. As photographers, we talk about the light, emphasize the light, are critical about the light. The dunes at White Sands react in amazing ways to the change in light, offering different looks, revealing various personalities. It is this diversity of the dunes that I wanted to capture then, and present here now.
Scientists usually try to find out the earliest date the dunes started forming, but it can be very tricky. The age of an individual grain of sand can certainly be dated, sometimes even to millions and millions of years ago. Unfortunately, the age of one particular grain of sand doesn’t reveal when the grain of sand actually started to be part of a sand dune.
texture by Lenabem-Anna J. and ipiccy.com
It isn't the mountain ahead that wears
you out: It's the grain of sand in your
shoe.
Robert W. Service
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This series-within-the-series focuses on dune features and the interplay between dunes, the personalities sculpted by wind and modeled by light.
In late October, I made a trip to New Mexico to shoot the dunes at White Sands National Park. I hooked up with my close friend and photographer, Sandra Herber. www.flickr.com/photos/sandraherber/ We were at White Sands four days, made eight excursions into the dunes, hiked over 20 miles and shot close to 2,000 photos between us.
We are posting our images at the same time and it will be interesting to see how we handled being in the same locations together. For safety reasons and for the fun of it, we hiked the dunes together, sometimes pointing our lenses in the same direction, other times wandering apart. I am sure we got some similar shots, but it will be interesting to see those that are different as we each have our own way of looking at things, as well as having different focal length coverage. Then there is the processing aspect.
To say White Sands is magical is an understatement. As photographers, we talk about the light, emphasize the light, are critical about the light. The dunes at White Sands react in amazing ways to the change in light, offering different looks, revealing various personalities. It is this diversity of the dunes that I wanted to capture then, and present here now.
Spent yesterday afternoon at West Witterings Beach, although only 40 minutes away I had never been there before.