The Astroid Belt, Vermilion Cliffs Wilderness

One of my favorite places that has since become so over run that it isn't any fun to go there anymore. Also, why I no longer divulge locations unless they're obvious.

I was hiking out of another place, along a ridge line, when I came to this. It reminded me of something from the "Star Trek" intro. A little technical info here. I use a Toyo 45A camera, and for this I used a Sinaron 90mm lens with a #61 Dark Green filter, which increased the contrast of the red rock sandstone stripes, since some were more to the red part and the layer next to it was either a very light yellow, and some were nearly white. Overall image contrast was very low, less than a stop difference between the darkest tone and the lightest. In that case I increased the film development time by two stops to increase the image contrast on the film negative. I then toned the entire negative in a strong solution of selenium toner to add another full stop of contrast to the scene. As you may discern, I work primarily with large camera and film. I still maintain a traditional film darkroom.

Nice to be here.