I had seen this amazing photo of the Totem formation in Monument Valley a long time ago. And I’ve wanted that photo for myself for a long time. So our appt with time this day was to get out into the sand dunes to get that shot. This is not it!
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Clouds are ~everything~ and within minutes of arriving in the perfect spot (Thanks Jerome!) the one puffy in the sky as you can see blasted out of here! You can see in the top photo the Totem was in shadow from a cloud, you can see the one behind it but they all left. Isn’t the light on the sand dunes in the lower photograph sexy though! So, I’m shooting with a PC-E so there is no lean to the Totem. I’m shooting with the D3x to capture all the detail in the dunes and yet, the bald sky is doing me in. That’s the way it work sometimes and there is nothing you can do about it. I’ve been preaching a lot lately though about time, giving yourself and your photography time. Today’s postings, I hope to illustrate that point.
Photos captured by D3x, 24PC-E on Lexar UDMA digital film