White Crane Photography

The road curved sinuously through this aspen grove, so I asked Bailey to walk out toward the curve while I framed the shot. Even though it was mid-day, the light was pretty soft under all those trees, so I didn’t need to worry about dynamic range. The hardest part about this shot was communication, though. Bailey was pretty far away from me, and the road wasn’t far from the Rapid River, so we wouldn’t hear each other over its roar. We had to make do with gestures and a bit of luck

I have a black and white version of this image shot on 4×5, that I will post after I get the scanned image cleaned up to my satisfaction. I also learned that I am probably not loading my cut-sheet film holders correctly, leading to my chromes being underexposed by what looks like 3-4 stops, and also showing some severe (red) color casts, not at all typical for Astia. So I’ll fix that before I shoot again

This weekend I’ll be camping in Yakima, so I’ll be trying out my new camping gear; I’ve only pitched my catenary tarp once, and it was a pretty lousy pitch. Hopefully, I’ll get a better pitch out of this time… because the following weekend it’s going to be my shelter for a trip from Rainy Pass through Cutthroat Pass, and out to the Pasayten Wilderness. There should be plenty of photo opportunities on that trip!

For anyone interested in an easy, pretty desert hike, I’m going to be leading a photo safari in Cowiche Canyon on Sunday (info here).