Stock Tank and the Cathedral Mountains
I’m not tall enough to get the shot I wanted, so I made this one by holding the camera as high above my head as I could reach and shooting it blind.
Just over to my left, a very large steer stood in the shade, watching the procedures. And off in the distance, the Cathedral Mountains.
It’s hard to think of anyplace I rather be than right here.
near Marathon, Texas
photographed 7.14.2018
Posted on July 23, 2018, in Photography and tagged 365 photo project, black and white photography, brewster county, far west texas, Glass Mountains, learning to see, Leica, marathon, marathon texas, melinda green harvey, monochrome, one day one image, photo a day, photography, postaday, stock tank, texas, thoughtful seeing, travel photography. Bookmark the permalink. 9 Comments.
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Nice shot. Bet the very large steer was thinking how crazy that human had to be.
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I know! After all, he was in the shade, while I was in full sun, on my tiptoes only inches away from a barbed-wire fence, holding a camera in the air. That’s a whole pile of crazy!
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Nicely improvised. I saw a guy shooting from the roof of his Range Rover once. Maybe a small stepladder in the car is an option for you.
Don’t recall seeing sepia from you before.
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Someone over on Facebook said the same thing. And I almost DID put one in the car for this trip. Just think of the vantage point of a stepladder+tiptoes+holding the camera way up in the air! It would look like a drone photo!!
I don’t do sepia very often (especially since I shoot almost exclusively with a Monochrom these days). But this just felt…well…sepia.
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I also know a guy who keeps a plastic drop sheet in his 4WD so he can lie on the ground to take photos without getting dirty.
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I have a ground cloth in the back of my car. I guess I could have stood on that; the extra 1/32nd of an inch would have made all the difference in that shot! (Now I have to go back…)
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*groan*
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Well done with that camera! 🙂
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Sometimes when people say, “This is a great photo – you must have a REALLY GOOD CAMERA!” I think they’re crazy. This time, though, it really WAS all camera and no photographer.
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