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This image was
photographed
looking down on the Yellowstone River as it courses
it's way through Yellowstone
Canyon. I used the Mamiya RZ-67 with the 50mm ULD lens
to expose this image on Kodak Portra 160 VC negative film.
The camera was tripod mounted and mirror was locked up to
accomplish this exposure. I confess I don't have words
to describe this place the print will have to speak for
itself but a man by the name of Rudyard Kipling
described it beautifully. I will quote him here: "I
looked into a gulf 1700' deep, with eagles and fish-hawks
circling far below. And the sides of that gulf were one wild
welter of colour--crimson, emerald, cobalt, ochre, amber,
honey splashed with port wine, snow-white, vermilion, lemon,
and silver-grey, in wide washes. The sides did not fall
sheer, but were graven by time and water and air into
monstrous heads of kings, dead chiefs, men and women of the
old time. So far below that no sound of its strife could
reach us, the Yellowstone River ran--a finger-wide strip of
jade-green. The sunlight took those wondrous walls and gave
fresh hues to those that nature had already laid there. Once
I saw dawn break over a lake in Rajputana and the sun set
over the Oodey Sagar amid a circle of Holman Hunt hills.
This time I was watching both performances going on below
me--upside down, you understand--and the colours were real!
The canyon was burning like Troy town; but it would burn
forever, and thank goodness, neither pen nor brush could
ever portray its splendours adequately."
--- Rudyard Kipling, 1889
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