Sand Patterns

I like the contrast between the grainy sand and the smoothness of the patterned sand. Is the cyan cast to this from the reverse processing? The type of fim? I haven't tried reverse processing for decades - but I remember my efforts being gray scale. Sly

Well seen Gavin. I find "intimate landscapes" (to use David Ward's phrase) such as this far more interesting than classic landscape vistas. And harder to succeed with too.

For me though, the area that's most interesting is the bottom left - presumably where water has been flowing. The top right, while it's essential because it dramatically contrasts with the bottom left, is a bit less interesting. Would it have been possible to shoot this with about half the area of dappled sand and a bit more of the flowing sand?

BTW, is this the DR5 cold tone developing? It's a fascinating colour.

Thanks for comments.

I took a few different versions of this at the time, with different filters. The orange filter worked best and boosted the contrast of the silt sand patterns. Composition-wise, I've looked again at the transparency and will crop a little off the top since your feedback - yes, it looks better - still a contrast between textures but more emphasis on the the darker sand patterns.

Colour-wise, this is Foma 200t reverse processed in dr5. Only the 120 reverses with a blue tone - I think it is because there is a blue polyester backing? http://www.dr5.com/foma120blu.html

I like this film a lot and have set some aside in the freezer for a (mostly semi-abstract) photographic project on the course of a single river in the Eastern Highlands. Hope to work on this over the next year or so.

Cheers,
Gavin

Beautiful sand pattern, Gavin!

Thanks Annemarieke!

Cheers,
Gavin