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| [Note Guidelines] Photographer's Note |
Hiding beneath the atmosphere
Surrounded by the stars
It's only temporary blindness
These are temporary scars
We are temporary visitors
Breathing temporary breaths
Lonely mortal tourists
Happily defining our own deaths...
FINALLY! A night off from work, no commitments in the morning, above-zero temperatures, full moon, clear skies, and no wind. Finally, an opportunity to get back out into the countryside and capture the world as it sleeps. It's been a long time since my poor little 20D has seen the moonlight, but we're back!
Revisiting a certain spot in Grand Forks County that we scouted earlier, TL member Dominant and myself packed up our gear tonight and took advantage of the nearly perfect weather. It's been much too cold lately to spend a lot of time outdoors, and even tonight's "warm snap" was rough on camera batteries, cheeks, and fingers.
It's been so long, we had almost lost our appreciation for how much work goes into capturing shots like this. Shots like this mean endless hours spent driving on gravel roads, marking spots on out-of-date maps, return trips, long walks across dark, snow-covered fields in the middle of nowhere, sinking up to the waist in snow drifts, constantly trying to keep batteries warm, freezing fingers, beating up tripods, getting that perfect angle to make best use of the moonlight, star motion and surroundings...
Every minute of it is a blast, though, and well worth every mile spent in a cramped 4x4, drinking gas-station coffee and listening to AM radio. Night photography is ten kinds of art forms in itself, and on the rare occasions when everything works together, it's a beautiful feeling.
Just being out there is enough to clear the senses, even if the photos don't work out as planned, which they often don't. As the camera sits and exposes, it's easy to let my eyes wander upwards, where my mind becomes lost in the abyss. Everything is calm and quiet, and I let my cares just swim away into the ocean of stars...
I hope you enjoy viewing this photograph as much as I enjoyed capturing it. |
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