Splendacious | Sun clouds terra firma Following the storm New Mexico Evening |
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n our afternoon visit to Chimayo, the weather was stormy, with hard downpours and gray skies. This was not what we expected, and we had to adjust our photographic sensibilities to compensate. But after a fine dinner the skies began to clear and a new window of opportunity cracked open. We pulled off the side of the road; I cranked the ISO to 1600, and made several exposures of the setting sun. Subsequent HDR processing of two separate raw conversions rendered this painterly interpretation.
“I chose nature photography as a way of capturing and sharing the beauty, power, and fragility of wild places and the life that inhabits them, so that those who have become mired in the man-made chaos may open their eyes to the real world.” - Guy Tal
