Large Format Landscapes

Jeff,

After 20 years of strolling around our Arizona deserts, I've never seen one of these beauties! Thanks for posting...and, nice pic!!

Very nice. Lived there most of my life, can't remember seeing one.

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Originally Posted by Salmo22

The crested saguaro is a rare "fellow being" of the Sonoran Desert. A Garnegiea Gigantea unicorn if you will. Having lived in Arizona all my life, this is the first crested saguaro I've seen in person. It was a special treat to photograph.

https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/...754fcb8f_h.jpg SONORAN UNICORN v.1 by Jeff D. Welker, on Flickr

Arca-Swiss 4x5 F-Metric, Ilford Ilfotch DDX, Illford FP4+, Rodenstock APO-Sironar-S 150mm f/5.6, Epson V850, SP-445 Compact 4x5 Film Processing System

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Excellent. It looks like (almost) like a PS creation....really unusual.

Les

Made this image years ago...jumped over the border fence for this! Attachment 200534
Saguaro, Mexico. Early DIY 5x7 woody, 210 Sironar-N, Orange filter, FP4 (early version) ABC pyro

Love that Unicorn, by the way - top reminds me of the Euphorbias I saw in certain areas of Ethiopia, where they would often surround living compounds to protect from wildlife.

Very good to NOT see bullet holes in those beauties!

Funny thing I encountered while photographing saguaros...on a clear, bright, absolutely still day - was that every few seconds some of them would "resonate" for a few seconds at a time, the intermittent movements being left over from high winds earlier in the day. So my timing had to be perfect - otherwise my images would not be needle-sharp (ouch!).

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Originally Posted by Steven Ruttenberg

I like the waterfall!

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Me too Steven! Been there many a time, never quite happy with what I come back with. Good excuse to keep returning :-)

Graham

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Originally Posted by Salmo22

The crested saguaro is a rare "fellow being" of the Sonoran Desert. A Garnegiea Gigantea unicorn if you will. Having lived in Arizona all my life, this is the first crested saguaro I've seen in person. It was a special treat to photograph.

https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/...754fcb8f_h.jpg SONORAN UNICORN v.1 by Jeff D. Welker, on Flickr

Arca-Swiss 4x5 F-Metric, Ilford Ilfotch DDX, Illford FP4+, Rodenstock APO-Sironar-S 150mm f/5.6, Epson V850, SP-445 Compact 4x5 Film Processing System

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Nice

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Originally Posted by Salmo22

The crested saguaro is a rare "fellow being" of the Sonoran Desert. A Garnegiea Gigantea unicorn if you will. Having lived in Arizona all my life, this is the first crested saguaro I've seen in person. It was a special treat to photograph.

https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/...754fcb8f_h.jpg SONORAN UNICORN v.1 by Jeff D. Welker, on Flickr

Arca-Swiss 4x5 F-Metric, Ilford Ilfotch DDX, Illford FP4+, Rodenstock APO-Sironar-S 150mm f/5.6, Epson V850, SP-445 Compact 4x5 Film Processing System

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Beautiful. Love the tones in this. Someone gave me a box of Ilford 8x10 recently, my dream is to replicate this kind of tonality.

Well, I don't usually salvage a color image by making it bw, but in this case it sorta did. By far, not the best, but it does highlight just how difficult it is to shoot the Grand Canyon. Didn't clean up the dust spots from scan.

https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/...f4427693_k.jpg