Corduroy

This was taken in late morning sunlight, roughly 11am. I mention this 'cause it isn't usually the light most landscape photogs look for. I shot these images after hauling my butt up one of the taller steeper dunes at Eureka. I had wanted to be up here earlier but found something else down in the flats and chose to stay with that.

As I mentioned, usually 11am lighting isn't ideal nor sought after-usually. Since going to the "dunes" here I've noticed they take on a rather silky look to them under this type of lighting. Knowing that, I shot several close-up shots like this to have as a reference for next time under "better" lighting and just in case I might have something to work with. I didn't initially do much with this image but started looking at it and realized I liked the soft silky almost textureless qualities.

I've been reading AA's <i>Examples - 40 Images</i> the last couple days and came across an interesting comment he made about Weston. He said Weston actually favored shooting in the dunes during mid day light. Perhaps I'm not the only crazy one out there liking this kind of lighting!

tech: single exposure worked up in CS2. 5d 100-400, @ 400 f22, 1/20s

as an aside: you should see the dust spots on my sensor, it's a real chore removing them with all these continuos light tones in this dune series. several times during this series I changed lenses out there in the raging blowing wind/sand. I really need to get my sensor cleaned!!