One thing that interests me about landscape photography is the scale perceived by someone looking at the photograph. Is the scene immense, or is it a tiny detail?
When landscape is reduced to the textural, as in these images of Zabriskie Point in Death Valley, the viewer may not have a point of reference–and may not be able to tell whether the photo depicts something big or small, or even whether it is a landscape or a quilt!
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[…] film by Michelangelo Antonioni. It’s also a great place to photograph; I had a blast taking photos of Zabriskie Point during the day when I stopped here on my 2005 roadtrip back towards the beginning of my digital […]