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Dripping Green

See it large on black to really get the texture. This is really a must.

Van Patten Mountain Camp Ruins, Organ Mountains, southern New Mexico. The title is a play on the name of this area within the mountain range...'Dripping Springs'.

I had made the trip from Dallas to New Mexico expressly to photograph this place. I even coordinated with ihveissues to make after-hours access arrangements with the Bureau of Land Management so we could stay after nightfall to shoot the place. And almost everything came off perfectly; but as we hiked up to the camp at sunset, approaching from the west, I realized that the moon wasn't gonna crest the mountains for a couple hours. I was pretty disappointed; I had been plotting to shoot this place for several months now, and now that I was here, I realized that the proper lighting angles were not going to be realized while we were there. Ideally we would have been there at about 2-3 in the morning instead of 7-10 at night, but Tom and I made do with what we had. I took this shot relatively late in our shooting window with the moon illuminating the mountains on either side somewhat, but the mountain in the background was still completely in shadow.

I mention all of this because I want to make it clear that I've manipulated the fill-lighting parameter pretty substantially in ACR to get bring out some detail in the mountains. I think this same composition shot at 3 in the morning with all natural lighting and no gels would be extremely powerful. But...as it stands, it is what it is.

Night, full moon, green-gelled 2 mil spot. 3 minute exposure.

Taken in: United States / New Mexico / Boyd (show map)

Taken on: January 20, 2008

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