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Telephoto Landscapes
Fading Light, Carrizo Plain CA
I was waiting, unsuccessfully, for some kit foxes to emerge from their den at sunset. They never showed, so there I was, stuck with a 500mm lens on my tripod and a lot of time on my hands. It was a glorious sunset, throwing shadows on the ridges of the Temblor Range (home of the San Andreas Fault).
Normally, I would look for a classic “Sierra Club Calendar Composition” with a wide-angle foreground leading to the distant hills.But here the foreground was dull and already in shadow. So instead, I used what I had, and looked for compositions through my 500mm lens. The extreme focal length forced me to look at the landscape as a collection of compressed patterns and light, almost an abstract: simply said, a picture that I could not have taken with any other lens. The lesson: look beyond the box, and experiment with the dramatic change in perspective that telephoto lenses can offer – even when that’s not what you were after in the first place…