A relatively little known park in the U.S. is John Day Fossil Beds National Monument in eastern Oregon. For landscape photographers, the colors and contours of the beautiful formations make striking images. I shot this in the 80's with a Mamiya RZ 67 medium format (i.e. 6x7cm transparencies) film camera. For all my landscape work in those days, I used Fujichrome Velvia 50 which was known for its saturated color. Since I almost always used f/32 when shooting nature, that meant every shot was done from a tripod because my shutter speeds were always slow. I took this with a 350mm telephoto which is equivalent to approximately a 200mm in the full frame digital format. It is counterintuitive, but colors in nature -- like the ones in this picture as well as autumn colors, glacial ice, fields of flowers, etc. -- always seem more saturated on overcast days.
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