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it doesn't look like a precarious angle, but i had to do a bit of climbing on slippery rock. i had to hold my tripod so it wouldn't fall over, all while holding the filter in front of the lens and trying not to fall myself!

used a 3 step ND grad filter to compress the dynamic range between sky and rock.

the desert is a challenge to photograph. with all those rocks and brown landscape, shots don't just leap out at you. a new life emerges when you look at it in black and white though, and suddenly it takes on a whole different beauty!

this is my personal favorite of the tower photos

very little post processing, this is pretty much how it came out of the camera, i simply added a bit more of a vignette to cover up the filter shadow.

used the Singh-Ray Vari-N-Duo filter plus 4-stop reverse grad ND filter.

the ocean did not give up this shot easily, and it took a while to get the right combo of water coming in with the wave crashing on the rock.