Windblown

These grasses were found on a pond in Denali NP, in the huge expanse of tundra / taiga in the shadow of the Denali massif near Wonder Lake. When I made this image a number of years ago, I was so intent on focusing on the ground glass under the dark cloth that I didn't realize a caribou had ambled up right behind me. I heard someone laughing, pulled the cloth off and turned around to be greeted by a young caribou literally a foot away. Some folks across the pond had watched the whole thing and told me later they thought the caribou was going to nose me into the pond. Guess the caribou was wondering what this funny looking 5 legged creature was along his watering hole. What is sort of spooky is that a bear could have been there instead of a caribou. Taught me to pay a lot more attention to my surroundings.
4x5, 210mm, Velvia, warm polarizer. M1 scan, Tony Kuyper's masks.

Large image provided to see a bit more detail.

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