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Cholla Garden Sunrise, Joshua Tree National Park

Cholla Garden Sunrise, Joshua Tree National Park

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Kim Burtnyk


Free Account, South Pasadena

Cholla Garden Sunrise, Joshua Tree National Park

One of my last film photographs...before I invested in the new digital slr. Sunrise in the Cholla Garden in Joshua Tree National Park, California, is absolutely worth the 4am wakeup tap on the tent.

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  • Kim Burtnyk 27/01/2010 22:06

    Haha

    I don't think I'll ever give up the film camera...I still like comparing film images to digital images. So I will definitely 'think about' it. :-)

    I actually had to seriously repair this image--in the original, the top half of the sky was obscured (i.e. blackened) by, I think, the bill of the cap I was wearing. So I had to recreate and blend the sky with the existing sky. Even some of the top-most cholla needles were affected by the penumbra of the shadow so I had to pixel by pixel reconstruct a few of those needles too. I've shown people the before and after and they're amazed.

    -Kim-