Slip

Slip, Death Valley – Steve Rutherford Landscape Photography Art Gallery

Slip, Death Valley – Steve Rutherford Landscape Photography Art Gallery

This is an unframed, limited edition collection landscape photography print of only 25 units. It is printed on Hahnemuhle Fine Art Pearl papers, structured to refract the highest values in colour and detail. It’s high-quality ink absorbing layer enables exceptional image quality with enormously detailed sharpness, and a very broad colour range, providing archival permanency of your artwork for over 100 years.

On tripod, Canon 5DMk2, 20mm, F25, 1/40th sec, ISO 100, no filter, processed in Lightroom.

This was the highest sand dune in Death Valley at the time. Near on 200 feet tall, it was a monster. Like nearly every photographer alive, I love sand dunes. What I don’t like are pesky tourists waling along the ridge causing the razor sharp edge to be ruined by footprints. This occasion was no different, until I saw another way. From the extreme left of the image where I was standing, I saw the landslips down the face of the image, and wondered if they would add a different dimension to the image. Something irregular. What I saw is this image. The light passed between super fast clouds streams. It became a race to catch of light across the face of the ridge with just enough contrast to get this result.

Slip, Death Valley – Steve Rutherford Landscape Photography Art Gallery

Ever landscape photograph has a version called “the standard shot of…”. I would encourage you to tell the story of a place from a completely different angle. Actually physically move to see it a different way. Dn’t just zoom in or out. Lay down on your belly, walk under, over and around the subject. Sometimes just a two dimensional flat depiction of it is enough to define it’s true story.