Yellowstone landscape

I took this landscape image in Yellowstone National Park in the 90’s with my medium format film camera, the Mamiya RZ 67. It took 2 ¼ x 2 ¾ transparencies (i.e. 6x7cm). This composition appealed to me because of the multiple diagonal lines and the juxtaposition of various kinds of textures. Note that the late afternoon lighting on the distant hills is low in contrast – typical of low angled sunlight. That makes this image work in terms of exposure because the shaded foreground is exposed just as well as the background, and this is a singe shot – not HDR which didn’t exist 30 years ago. I used a 250mm telephoto which was equivalent to a 135mm in the 35mm digital format, and my lens aperture was f/32 which accounts for the complete depth of field (no focus stacking back then). This meant my shutter speed was probably 1/8; that would have forced me to use a cable release in conjunction with my tripod.