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Death Valley, California February 2007
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20-FEB-2007

Morning's Layers
Death Valley, California February 2007


Manley Beacon awaits the morning light.

Olympus E-330
1/250s f/6.3 at 114.0mm iso200 hide exif
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Date/Time20-Feb-2007 06:45:04
MakeOlympus
ModelE-330
Flash UsedNo
Focal Length114 mm
Exposure Time1/250 sec
Aperturef/6.3
ISO Equivalent200
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Phil Douglis12-Mar-2007 02:16
Thanks, Tim, for giving us your reasons for this tight crop. I do see the slumbering animal here, too.
And you right -- the context for this rock is well known, at least among other photographers, if not the general public.
Tim May12-Mar-2007 00:52
I feel that Manely Beacon is probably one of the most photographed places in the world (judging from the gaggle of photographer on that mound in front of the viewing area). So, in choosing the shot that captured the spirit of that morning, I decided to, for this image, assume that the viewer already knows the greater context. I rather wanted to get at the sense of how the morning creeps across the scene. For me Manely Beacon is almost animal like in its contours in this image and it lies in the dark waiting for light to hit it.
Phil Douglis12-Mar-2007 00:07
Usually, your compositions a bit looser than mine. I have to break myself of the habit of cropping ruthlessly in the viewfinder. It is an instinctive act, and it works fine for you here, but we must be careful when we do this. We can always crop a loose composition into a tighter one. But we can't expand such compositions. Once the context is gone, it is gone. And interesting twist on this shot -- we are shooting at the same moment, side by side. You zoom in on the beacon, while I pull back a bit athttp://www.pbase.com/pnd1/image/75091832 . We have each confounded our tendencies here.