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This is a seriously messed up image, it is horrible quality, noise throughout, basically should be canned, but it would be hard to go capture this scene again considering the lightning bolts, at least not in a long time. So, I did a quick edit on it for web display, considering it is technically a disaster piece – hence the name. This is not a blend/composite, it is one long exposure. This image is NOT for sale in ANY medium, and is for display purposes only. © MIKE CLASEN PHOTOGRAPHY http://www.mikeclasenphotography.com
Captured in early Autumn of 2015 for a class project. Ancient fractured tufa spheroids rest on this dry and barren Lake bed, a remnant of ancient Lake Lahontan. The area where I shot this scene was once deep underwater thousands and thousands of years ago. With changes in nature, and most recently mans involvement, this lake has been a dry lake since the 1930's. This is an exposure blend of two 'point and shoot' bracketed exposures (for the sky). © MIKE CLASEN PHOTOGRAPHY www.mikeclasenphotography.com
I could not think of a more fitting name for this other than ‘Tufa Thing’. It kind of looks like it is part of an alien being’s anatomy, your imagination can take over from there.... Maybe a dinosaur turd that exploded like a volcano, and was then fossilized?? Captured early autumn of 2015, and post processed a couple months later. This is a focus stack of 14 captures for the landscape, an exposure blend of two ‘bracketed’ exposures from the stack for the sky, along with a tiny dash of perspective blending at the very bottom of the frame. Print's not available, for personal display only. © MIKE CLASEN PHOTOGRAPHY http://www.mikeclasenphotography.com
