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Took a furious drive out to a spot 80 miles WSW of Moab to 'greet the visitor'. Any Kubrick/2001 fan should be mesmerized by this thing sprouting up 17 miles down a bumpy dirt road near the Needles District of Canyonlands National Park. 25 hours door-to-door, including 6.5 hours of shooting.
Tried to keep it all as realistic as possible, hope I did justice to this wondrous object/location. 5Ds and Tamron 35/1.4, composite consists of 3 rows of 6 images, including focus-stacking the foreground. Had to wait quite awhile to get rid of the moon; you'd think it'd be helpful for a subject like this... not.
For anyone interested, you can find more info here, including some ramblings about art, light and the BLM.
Arthur C. Clarke and Stanley Kubrick would be proud of this photograph. The monolith and your photograph of it are definitely an "other world" kind of vision. Very nice work.
My hope is that not too many people will track down its location.
keepclicking wrote:
I saw this on news earlier this week and they said that the location is not going to be disclosed
Nice find and well captured.
That whole thing about not wanting to advertise the location because it is dangerous and remote is just silly. Granted you need an absolute minimum of a capable Subaru Outback (clearance, approach/departure angles), but they just want to keep people from mobbing the place. Lots of people camped near Hamburger Rock Weds night, and there was maybe 15 cars headed up as I was headed out on Thu morning. Glad you enjoyed!
EB-1 wrote:
The monolith doesn't look right, i.e., the dimensional proportions are not correct (each 2^n IIRC) or there is some severe distortion.
EBH
'Severe distortion' of the construction or the image?
EDIT: I think I figured out your meaning... re: the movie, you are correct in that this is triangular in form, rather than the 'rectangular' slab in the movie.
Arthur C. Clarke and Stanley Kubrick would be proud of this photograph. The monolith and your photograph of it are definitely an "other world" kind of vision. Very nice work.
My hope is that not too many people will track down its location.
Tom
Thanks for the kind words, I truly hope you are right. Tracking it down is not at all tough, though most won't bother unless they are in the area. I'm guessing a month from now people will have forgotten about it, and I hope the BLM does.
Next time I'm bringing Windex, a Swiffer dust sweeper and a torpedo level. lol
The retention of the deep tones in the rocks and the almost glowing tones of the monolith are great.
The composition with the Milky Way arching over the monolith works out great, especially with the tones of Milky Way reflecting off the upper part of the monolith.
Hope the federales will leave it alone. Yes, repair that which has been defaced. This is not one of those situations.
By the way, I bought the Tammy 35/1.4 when it went on sale about a month ago. It gives great stars at the edges, not buggy at all. And, surprise of surprises, the R5 can actually auto focus the darn thing on stars, and they don't have to be the brightest ones. Great for old eyes. Up here, we are some long, cold months before Milky Way season and when my lens can get a workout. Have to hope for some chances at aurora borealis.
