Just a cloud made all the difference.
In an area south of the Bisti Badlands in New Mexico, after spending a few hours shooting the sunrise and working the early light on a pretty cloudless morning http://www.focalworld.com/index.php?threads/sunrise-splendor.1260/ I decided that I would test out a different route in into the KoW.
There were no clouds, so rather then hang around my jeep I decided to pack up a few supplies and hike across the desert before it go too unbearably hot. I found out that the scale on my gps was not as accurate as it looked.
Instead of being a little over a mile, it was actually about 2 miles one way, but it was pretty level terrain, which is why I wanted to test a different route. The normal route involves making your way through a maze of canyons filled with dead end gullies. It's a bit of a pain to navigate in the dark.
So now this route I was experimenting with, which was rather level by desert standards, ended up being almost twice as long as I thought. So in the end I am not sure I will try that again.
Now despite the cloudless day, as I got up to KoW, and was enjoying the view, this one small tiny cloud started to form out of nothing. So I quickly setup and moved to position the cloud where you see it. Literally within a minute or two as the cloud drifted to the left of the frame it was gone. By the time it got to the edge it had disappeared. I personally would have liked the cloud to have been just a bit more to the left, and I shot it there, but by the time it had moved that far in say 20 seconds or so, the clouds shape was already being torn apart. So.... this is what I got.
After all that blabbering... all comments are welcome!
Jim
In an area south of the Bisti Badlands in New Mexico, after spending a few hours shooting the sunrise and working the early light on a pretty cloudless morning http://www.focalworld.com/index.php?threads/sunrise-splendor.1260/ I decided that I would test out a different route in into the KoW.
There were no clouds, so rather then hang around my jeep I decided to pack up a few supplies and hike across the desert before it go too unbearably hot. I found out that the scale on my gps was not as accurate as it looked.
Instead of being a little over a mile, it was actually about 2 miles one way, but it was pretty level terrain, which is why I wanted to test a different route. The normal route involves making your way through a maze of canyons filled with dead end gullies. It's a bit of a pain to navigate in the dark.So now this route I was experimenting with, which was rather level by desert standards, ended up being almost twice as long as I thought. So in the end I am not sure I will try that again.
Now despite the cloudless day, as I got up to KoW, and was enjoying the view, this one small tiny cloud started to form out of nothing. So I quickly setup and moved to position the cloud where you see it. Literally within a minute or two as the cloud drifted to the left of the frame it was gone. By the time it got to the edge it had disappeared. I personally would have liked the cloud to have been just a bit more to the left, and I shot it there, but by the time it had moved that far in say 20 seconds or so, the clouds shape was already being torn apart. So.... this is what I got.
After all that blabbering... all comments are welcome!
Jim
