Standing Goblins, Escalante Wilderness

I had been hiking in the Grandstaircase/Escalante National Monument area - a huge piece of real estate; and magnificent. It had been raining literally for days and I was soaked, soggy and cold so I decided to drive into a nearby town, get a motel room and some warm food. Driving out on that "slick as snot on a wet glass door knob" road I saw this a short distance from the road. The trick was to set my camera up in a place where I would get the sun while the rock structure began cutting off direct sunlight... harder than you think using a large format camera! I got the image I wanted. Then the challenge in printing it on silver based darkroom paper was to get rid of the inevitable "flying saucers" that were introduced by lens flair. I finally figured out how to make very thin film masks that would equalize the light in those areas, and the mask worked quite well. This was all done using film, a Superchromega D-6 enlarger with a Condit pin register film masking set up. I used a Toyo 45A camera, 65mm Sinaron lens with a #21 light red filter. The exposure was made using Kodak T-Max 100 film for the base exposure then using Kodak 2556 Ortho Line Copy film to create the mask.