This one is from the recent trip down to the Drumheller badlands at the beginning of October. My friend Rob and I spent four days down there shooting. It was kind of by default, as the poor weather conditions had forced us to cancel our plans to head to some remote badlands further to the southeast and as a compromise we hung around the Drumheller area instead. It had been raining heavily the first day of our trip and we were not really expecting to be able to get out into the badlands. For anyone that has ever been in the area after a rain you know very well that the bentonite and cretaceous clays turn to grease after a rain. Walking on anything but a horizontal surface is almost impossible. On the morning of October 2nd we headed over to the Hoodoos near Cambria and tried our best to stay upright. Every step was measured and we were very careful to avoid any surfaces with any slope at all. As the sun began to intensify by about 10:00AM when this shot was taken, it was beginning to dry out the saturated surfaces. The humidity must have been almost 100% as the morning sun was creating a steam that was rising off the hills. Backlit in the morning sun this was quite a spectacle. I attempted to capture it with my camera but had to avoid direct back light and the resulting lens flare. I think this one worked fairly well. I shot this on Kodak T-Max 100, exposed at 80 iso, and developed in 510 Pyro. This one was captured with a 240mm lens, a slightly long lens for this format.
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