by Alain Briot
White Sands
Spirit of place as inspiration
I was photographing the moon rising over White Sands when, after I completed my moon shots, I turned to my right and noticed this scene unfolding next to me. The color of the sky and of the dune where nearly similar, and the ripples in the sand mimicked the cloud formation in the sky.
I had a 300mm with a 1.4 tele-extender on my 1DsMk2 at the time. Aware that the light quality was about to disappear, I decided to not change anything to my lens setup. I had concerns that this lens combination was way too long for this image, but I did what I recommend you do to foster creativity, which is turn off your inner filter –your brain if you will- and just create an image, without editing anything, without wondering if this is right or wrong, and without asking yourself what others might think. After all, if worse comes to worse, you can always delete the raw file and move on. Nobody...
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