Black and White
©Don Kneessi
The format was an eight by ten view camera. The size of the camera equipment made it difficult for carrying that size through the Dunes of Assateague Island. We decided to use our son’s snow sleds as our means of camera transportation, and it worked great. So, we packed up all of what I believed necessary and off we went hiking, and the reward for all that work is my “Whale Bone” series of images! |
Title: “Whale Bone #1”, Assateague Island Negative number 1368 is an image of Whale Bones and is titled “Whale Bone #1.” The summer of 2003 found my wife, Sharon, and I backpacking large format cameras to different locations on the Eastern Shore of Maryland. We came across the whale bones in the Dunes of Assateague Island. We had to wait for just the right natural lighting I thought would capture the greatest amount of contrast and tonal range the final print would be able to produce.
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