Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2010/05/16
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Beautiful, Marty. Looks like the place to play with IR too, except that there is no foliage of course. Cheers, Nathan Nathan Wajsman Alicante, Spain http://www.frozenlight.eu http://www.greatpix.eu http://www.nathanfoto.com Books: http://www.blurb.com/bookstore/search?search=wajsman&x=0&y=0 PICTURE OF THE WEEK: http://www.fotocycle.dk/paws Blog: http://www.fotocycle.dk/blog On May 16, 2010, at 7:20 AM, Marty Deveney wrote: > Many people who go to Sossusvlei make their way up the road to Dead > Vlei - Sebastiao Salgado even put a picture of Dead Vlei in his africa > book. This is an old river valley which was cut off by shifting sand. > The local microclimate changed and became very dry about 900 years > ago. The trees died. When it rains and then dries the clay sediments > form impressive geometric cracking. It hadn't rained for a long time > when we were there, so a lot of the dried mud was wearing from > visitors and natural erosion. > > On the way, more sand: > http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/freakscene/Africa+2009/Namibia/img375a.jpg.html > > One of Jim Shulman's subjects got lost and followed us to Dead Vlei: > http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/freakscene/Africa+2009/Namibia/img377a.jpg.html > > Up over another dune and the clay pan streched out in front of us: > http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/freakscene/Africa+2009/Namibia/img741a.jpg.html > > Weathered cracked clay underfoot: > http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/freakscene/Africa+2009/Namibia/img746a.jpg.html > > Framing the huge dunes are dozens of dead Acacia erioloba: > http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/freakscene/Africa+2009/Namibia/img751a.jpg.html > > And always encroaching sand, more sand: > http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/freakscene/Africa+2009/Namibia/img754a.jpg.html > > Leica MP, Hexanon 50/2, 35/1.4 asph. Yellow or light red (which did > not lighten the sand anywhere like as much as you might expect) > filter. Mix of Tri-X and Plus-X in Xtol 1=3. > > Comments etc welcome. More soon, > > Marty > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >