Bury Alderman In The Sand - a photo on Flickriver

I managed to talk some poor sucker into taking another whirlwind tour of California's Imperial Valley with me last week. I hope he wasn't too shaken.

Among the first words out of Kevin's mouth when I picked him up Friday - within 60 seconds of my aggressive merging onto the LA freeway system - "wow, you fit in well here" . . . and about 26 hours later when I was exiting to drop him back at home, "I didn't really expect you to drive so fast." During that time, I only allowed him 4 hours of sleep.

But I think it might have been worth it. It was for me anyway. I've long been inspired by dunes shooter John B. Weller and really wanted to hit Imperial dunes for a couple shoots, while our main objective was getting back to areas of the Salton Sea (20 miles north) that we missed last year.

This is a 67 second exposure from about 9pm last Friday night . . . a beautiful moonlit night with clouds and a perfect wind. It was an unusual shoot - the moon was high, so the light was relatively flat, and the expanses were so far they were beyond range of our flashlights. For the better part of 5 hours that night, we made our way a couple hundred yards back into the dunes by shooting wide-open apertures at ISO 3200 (to get shutter speeds down to a reasonable 1-2 seconds) - simply to see where we were going.

Taken on: November 19, 2010

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Camera: Canon EOS 40D, f/6.3, 67 sec, 10mm, ISO 320 (more info) (hide info)

Camera:	Canon EOS 40D
Lens:	EF-S10-22mm f/3.5-4.5 USM
Aperture:	f/6.3
Exposure Time:	67
Focal Length:	10mm
ISO:	320
Exposure Bias:	0 EV
Flash:	Off, Did not fire
Exposure Program:	Manual
Exposure Mode:	Manual
Metering Mode:	Multi-segment
White Balance:	Auto
Color Space:	sRGB
Software:	Adobe Photoshop CS4 Windows
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