Shades of Day . . . by Cody Redmon
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Taken on a beautifully lit day in Yellowstone National Park, this image is the pinnacle of my minimalist landscape work. There’s an old saying that if you stare at something long enough you’ll begin to see what you want to. This scene, however, jumped out and knocked me over. I watched the light play through the ravines for nearly 30 minutes, captivated by the subtleties of tone and form.
Yellowstone’s Lamar Valley, called the Serengeti of North America, is home to a wide variety of wildlife, a teeming river and innumerable scenes such as this one. Because the valley is not along the main loop through the Park’s interior it tends to get a bit less traffic. As the only maintained roadway during the winter season, it leads to Cooke City and Silver Gate, MT – two clusters of living at the end of a dead end highway. Beyond is the beautiful and famous Beartooth Highway…
What a perfect title for this image…just beautiful
Thanks for your comment, PNF, glad you liked my attempt at cleverness with the title.
Very beautiful picture , the darkness of the trees contrasting very nicely with the light brown color of the dunes , the sheer simplicity of the scene adds to its beauty and grandeur.
And mixture of light and shadow grants it a feeling of surrealism thats very intriguing as well
Hi Dino, thank you for your kind words. What appear to be dunes in this image are actually rolling hillsides covered with snow. The browning you mentioned is part of the duotone process I use on my ‘black and white’ photos…it warms them slightly and adds a sense of softness that I feel gets lost sometimes when using grayscale values only. Thanks again for taking a moment share your feedback.