Rare are the moments when light seems to settle and gently caress the material world. Chance or opportunity - an encounter between the photographer and his subjet.

Equipment

The use of the photographic medium (view camera) is certainly the noblest of ways to bear witness to the different elements and details of a landscape. It gives the photographer the possibility of becoming a part of the scenery during the different phases of camera adjustment. A photographer takes photographs according to the rhythms of light, not the rhythm of time. The format of the rendered image (from 4x5 inch to 8x10 inch) reveals all the details of the image clearly and precisely.

The photographic medium enables several different adjustments (movements), the main ones being: decentration and the Scheimpflug principle (law of conjugate planes). In the context of this specific case, decentration of the camera was used in order to frame the subject as desired.

The Blade - King of Wings (New Mexico)

There are still challenges that lead you further. The Blade (King of Wings, San Juan Basin, New Mexico, USA). GPS map location unknow.

To find King of Wings (The Blade) requires a very good knowledge of the terrain in these hostile landscapes of San Juan Basin.

September 2012

"...through this photographic eye you will be able to look out on a new light-world, a world for the most part uncharted and unexplored, a world that lies waiting to be discovered and revealed." - Edward Weston

The Blade, King of Wings, Bisti Badlands - De Na Zin Wilderness, New Mexico, USA