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I wanted a wide angle shot of the desert, and had not brought my good wide angle for the Canon, so I went to a camera store in LA and bought a close-out panasonic "point-and-shoot" GF3 with a 14mm lens attached, for a total of $300, figuring that the desert light would make all the difference in the world, and who would be the wiser? I mounted the little Panasonic on a tripod and head worth more than it was, and waited for the clouds to roll in. Voila! Old guys like myself and Steven (I know you'll read this, buddy) remember the fun of competing to get the most out of the old point and shoot film cameras, and it was frankly so much fun that I wanted to feel some of that again, so here is one exposure I worked in while shooting telephoto on the Canon 5D. Frankly, I prefer "Time and Space", because it is much more subtle and abstract, and is actually how I see the desert in my soul, but this composition gives the eye a nice path to the clouds, and the blue and orange are very sweet compliments (if I don't say so myself). And again, its an old man's trip down Memory Lane, when one of the objectives was to get the most out of the least, one of the ancient virtues of primitive photography.

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I wanted a wide angle shot of the desert, and had not brought my good wide angle for the Canon, so I went to a camera store in LA and bought a close-out panasonic "point-and-shoot" GF3 with a 14mm lens attached, for a total of $300, figuring that the desert light would make all the difference in the world, and who would be the wiser? I mounted the little Panasonic on a tripod and head worth more than it was, and waited for the clouds to roll in. Voila! Old guys like myself and Steven (I know you'll read this, buddy) remember the fun of competing to get the most out of the old point and shoot film cameras, and it was frankly so much fun that I wanted to feel some of that again, so here is one exposure I worked in while shooting telephoto on the Canon 5D. Frankly, I prefer "Time and Space", because it is much more subtle and abstract, and is actually how I see the desert in my soul, but this composition gives the eye a nice path to the clouds, and the blue and orange are very sweet compliments (if I don't say so myself). And again, its an old man's trip down Memory Lane, when one of the objectives was to get the most out of the least, one of the ancient virtues of primitive photography.