Desert Picture

So i found this picture while in school on friday, i believe. Maybe it was thursday. Anyways, I got this picture and put it on here because i thought it was a good contrasting picture, like the cityscape picture of portland oregon in my earlier post. Also, this picture of the desert has a lot of variety to it, not just a solid pattern or a few shades of gray. You've got dark black shadowy sand, light, almost white sand being hit by the sun, and gray shades in between, from the sky and of sand in the foreground. In the bottom of the picture the sand has been changed into a pattern by the wind. I find it interesting how different things can change so suddenly in in such little time or, in this case, space, like how just over the ridge of that hill of sand it is completely smooth and undisturbed. It also looks like there is more wind disturbance farther away in the picture, to the left of the center. There is another example of how different things in nature can be, even when being in close proximity with one another and being made up of the same things. I like this picture also because it relates to the current photography project which we are doing, and has a heavy contrast between shades of gray. When we developed our negatives yesterday, we had to be careful to not keep them in the devoloping liquid for too long, or the contrast between things would become too great and the whole thing would over-develop. I think the photographer here did a good job of getting just the right development time.