Size: 7.5” x 7.5” on 8.5” x 11” JonCone Studio Type 5 Paper

Signed & stamped in verso

I often just watch without any thought to artistic creation. No notes scribbled down or cameras setup. To just sit and give myself wholly to the landscape, as Barry Lopez writes

…to give himself up to a particular landscape in his experience; to look at it from as many angles as he can, to wonder upon it, to dwell upon it. He ought to imagine that he touches it with his hands at every season and listens to the sounds that are made upon it. He ought to imagine the creatures there and all the faintest motions of the wind. He ought to recollect the glare of the moon and the colors of the dawn and dusk.

I love that. It encompasses my feeling on landscape art, on nature art. This image feels that way to me, it is of a solitaire artist, observing the very heart of it and capturing it in a way that creates something that wasn’t literally there. It captures a feeling. I indeed was sitting in solitude on a Sierra Rock and time simply did not exist.

Read my journal post on this image

Location: John Muir Wilderness, High Sierras

Technical Info: Hasselblad, Kodak T-Max 100 BW film, Zeiss 50mm, Deep Yellow #12, B+W 10-Stop ND, 8min, developed in Kodak X-tol 1:1.