searchingtoseeThe Canyon
I wasn’t going to post any pictures from the Grand Canyon, as they weren’t really very good, but then I got some black and white prints back from the rolleiflex, and I realised they had captured something I wasn’t able to capture in digital.
This one best sums up the awe and the austerity of the landscape, I think.
© images and content Emily Hughes and searchingtosee, 2013
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The canyon is giving off its own light. Gorgeous.
the light was perfect. Thanks!
layers of time…
yes! Perfectly put.
so good
thanks! And thanks for visitng
Wonderful capture, Emily. The detail is superb.
I know… just what I love about film, and especially medium format
What a stunning sight!
thanks, it really was
Such an awe inspiring shot! 🙂
thanks!
Fantastic detail Emily, particularly those sharp details in the cliffs!
thanks Cath, the film was very slow, so helped to capture all of the detail I think.
Each tool makes something different. Wonderful details, Emily, this is sublime.
yes that’s so true. I love when the tool, the medium, leaves its mark on the end product. For me this picture is so obviously from this camera.
Wow. Awesome! I always find it so difficult to capture large landscapes because it’s so vast and difficult to convey how truly amazing what you’re seeing is, but you’ve done it brilliantly here. I’m inspired. Thanks for sharing.
thanks for commenting! I’m really glad you are inspired 🙂
Gorgeous.
thanks Elena!
Wonderful details, that make the landscape seem all the more massive, indifferent and alienating. I really like it.
really glad you like it, thanks!
It’s not quite the same but the photograph has the same feeling tone as some line drawings I did while sitting on deck going down the Yangtze River gorge.
oh I would love to see those! I so envy people who can really draw well.
They are sitting in a box half way made into an artist’s book on China – someday… What was cool was a Chinese artist came up on deck. sat down beside me and sketched, too. We couldn’t speak each other’s language but we could make pictures together.
I’ll look forward to the book! Sounds like an amazing experience.
Yes, sometimes digital is just too digital or whatever it is. This photograph is really nice. I think of going back to film but I mostly paint now or Im trying to, then the camera comes out again……
I think it’s hard to do too many things! I would love to learn to paint but I just don’t have the time