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Sun - May 1, 2005
Velvia Period of My Photography
10 years ago, I was still in my nature photography or "velvia" period. I was shooting mostly landscape or patterns in nature carefully avoiding any human elements. My favorite subjects were sand dunes. I spent countless sunrise and sunset hours in Great Sand Dunes in southern Colorado. I also visited other sandy places in the southwest: White Sands in New Mexico, Death Valley and Corral Pink Sand Dunes in Utah. "Shape of the Wind" was a name of my sand dunes portfolio. Another reminder of this time is a set of six glass bowls with colorful samples of sand.
It was time of my intense self education in photography.
I was learning mostly from books and photo magazines. I studied all available books by master nature and landscape photographers
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After shooting tons of 35 mm slides mostly on Velvia film I was getting ready to try large format photography. I bought an old 4x5" Super Graphic camera and decided to practice with a Polaroid film. For some reasons it happened to be a peel apart type 59 film. My 4x5 pictures were not so great, but I produced a huge pile of Polaroid prints. My photographic vision was about to change.
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