Places & Things: On Location: Arizona: Long Walk

To convey the scale of a landscape is sometimes hard to do with a photograph. As I walked toward the peaks in the background, they didn’t seem to move at all. It was then that I realized this was going to be a very long walk. Tilting my camera down and placing it very close to the ground, the river bed in the foreground is captured while keeping the peaks in the background in sharp focus. My hope was to convey the great extent of this wonderful scene, from inches in front of my tripod legs to miles away.
Long Walk, March, 2005

To convey the scale of a landscape is sometimes hard to do with a photograph. As I walked toward the peaks in the background, they didn’t seem to move at all. It was then that I realized this was going to be a very long walk. Tilting my camera down and placing it very close to the ground, the river bed in the foreground is captured while keeping the peaks in the background in sharp focus. My hope was to convey the great extent of this wonderful scene, from inches in front of my tripod legs to miles away.