Tuesday, February 10, 2009

Ten Bits Ranch


Here's the view from the Ten Bits Ranch, near Terlingua, Texas. I was out there with my motorcycle gang, riding around Big Bend and the Davis Mountains in January.
This was taken a couple of hours before sunset. The pattern of the peaks, the texture of the terrain, and the play of light and shadow were what caught my eye. I wanted to separate the foreground, middle-ground, and background to show context, and to draw the viewer's eye with leading lines and areas of high contrast.
Would you believe that John Wayne is standing just out of the frame to camera left?
Questions? Comments?
-CG TTL