Joshua Tree National Park, 2007

Very nice 8x20 Richard. Just the two images work well together, but you could of even kept going futher.

Have you ever done panoramic images like this before with the 8x10?

When you mount these, will they be apart just abit or touching?

Thanks Ryan. I don't like to think of it as an 8x20, but as a diptych. I made both pictures work as stand alones also incase the negs didn't match up or if they got damaged (which actually did happen). If I mount them on the same board I will leave a small gap.

It was going to be a tritych with a really nice cloud on the left balancing the mountain on the far right. It was my first time developing with semi-stand, and the agitator I was using scratched the hell out of the far left negative (I solved that problem this morning). I could spot the neg, but i'd rather not. I made a similar picture earlier in the trip on a mostly clear day and I plan to show them as a diptych of diptychs.

I started making these on my most recent trip out West-- partly based on some polaroids I made a few months ago, and partly from looking at some of Bob Dawson's and Mark Klett's work.

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Excellent Rich. I love the way the high contrast gradates from hard in the bottom right to extremely soft in the top left. I think that relationship is all that's needed to balance the mountian as you say. Can't wait to see more. doc

really nice image... I love going through there ... job well done..


Miles

Richard,

This works great as a diptych. When I first saw it I thought that you might be contact printing a 6x7 diptych similar to the 6x7 contacts you were working on when I met you at Michael and Paula's. Of course, I was amazed by the resolution.

Great work,
Mike Davis

This looks great, each on its own is interesting and they work even better together.

Well done Rich. I made an effort there last year to make a triptych but failed. Coachella Valley as it is.

I actually ended up enlarging these to 16x22 each with the 8x10 enlarger at Project Basho onto Ilford Multigrade. The total size including the space in the middle is around a 16x44 1/2. The final framed size is 24x52 1/2. Thankfully I have *access* to a computerized matcutter adn no 40x60 mats were harmed in the making of this . . .

I just posted another I made nearby looking another direction. Key's View is one of those places where it is so hard to work from. I have only made three or four really good ones in the last 9 years I have been photographing there.