I <3 Mendocino

I <3 Mendocino

I am not sure how this happened, but I never processed any of the images from last summer’s trip to Mendocino (my wife’s home county in California.) Looking through them, I can’t remember making well over half of these images, but several are worth working on. I need to clean my hard drive more often, I guess.

This image was made near MacKerricher State Park a bit after sunset and the rest of the family had gone back to camp. I don’t know who drew the heart in the sand, but I remember being terribly uninspired at that moment, and the design was the most interesting thing around. I just wanted to stand there and soak it in rather than bother with being creative.

The light dropped off really quickly this particular night and my D200 was useless less than 30 minutes after the sun had dipped behind the horizon. That’s one thing about film I still miss: bulb exposures without worrying about sensor noise. Not to mention, on most emulsions, reciprocity failure could create some pretty cool things.

Yeah, I miss Velvia.