I'd found some hoodoos before; in France and New Zealand, to be exact, and both of those were stumbled upon. However, Chris' gleeful exploitation of the Arizona variety had done a good job of convincing me that I needed to see some desert hoodoos before I turned old.
Even though that ship has sailed, I was still like a kid in a candy store upon our arrival here. Pre-flight checklist as follows:
Crutches: stashed in the car; SO over it, I'll hobble
Murphy: sick and curled up in the back seat
Camera: attached to any of a selection of dusty tilt-shift lenses
Strobes: fucking blaaaaaaasting
Save for the sick girlfriend, the rest of that checklist is a pretty fair swipe at how to guarantee a good time after dark, at least in my old age. Anyhow, enough babbling: on to the fun stuff.
![](http://1l1t.com/photos/130905_az6_hoodoos/_ED_1245.jpg)
Oh hi there; I'm a hoodoo
![](http://1l1t.com/photos/130905_az6_hoodoos/_ED_1254.jpg)
Last light
Basically, it was really cool and all fun 'n games, and then the nearly-full moon rose, bathing the landscape with the kind of light my strobes could only ever dream about. Long night inevitable!
![](http://1l1t.com/photos/130905_az6_hoodoos/_ED_1261.jpg)
Alien landscape
![](http://1l1t.com/photos/130905_az6_hoodoos/_ED_1275.jpg)
Yeah, some shadows would be cool
![](http://1l1t.com/photos/130905_az6_hoodoos/_ED_1286.jpg)
Peekaboo
Mondo thanks to Chris for being an Expert Organic Strobe Fixturing Device, which mostly necessitated ignoring his own photos for the night. My photo-ADD was in full swing and he was mighty tolerant of it all.
Hoping to drop Burning Man photos on you
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1 comment:
Wow. AND photos from the man tomorrow? Awesome.
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