6561 x 4886 px | 55,5 x 41,4 cm | 21,9 x 16,3 inches | 300dpi
Aufnahmedatum:
17. August 2011
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What turned out a twilight morning beginning in disappointment, as heavy cloud hugged the horizon, became instead a blur of photographic activity. I'd just finished a 15 minute challenge photographing a lichen crusted rock, bursting with colour. Because of the sloping pavement, and the rock being above me I had the tripod on full reach so the rock didn't appear above the horizon. Now I couldn't see to compose, nor view the results. So I composed at eye level, and trying to keep lateral movment to a minimum as I hoisted the centre coloumn, locked it off and clicked the shutter. After 10 attempts I finally got it, but naturaly the twilight colour in the clouds had all but gone, but as my focus was the rock I was pleased with the results. About then I just happened to turn around, and on the horizon, the risen sun was shading the gap a soft orange. I knew I had to work quick, but the problem was foreground, I needed something to lead the eye. In such a bland expanse of pitted grey sandstone this wasn't an easy task with time fast running out. I picked up the tripod with camera and ran to what I thought was appealing, but it wasn't. I ran again to another, a prominent rock this time, but it just looked like a grey lump on a grey field. Spying a broken section of pavement with crevaces running in all directions, I rushed to it, setup and by now the glow was beginning to fade. I had enough time for two exposures of 10 seconds, and then it faded rapidly to a dark grey mass, over a steel grey sea, over a dark grey pavement. Alpa STC, Schneider 47mm, Leaf 75s, 2 stop ND Grad
