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@jvkewillivms Highway 395 is the kind of road that makes you want to loop it. We drove it in the cruiser with the Mamiya 7 on the seat next to me and a few rolls of Portra 400. The Alabama Hills at dawn are one of those places that have been photographed so many times they should feel exhausted. They don’t. At 5 AM the boulders are dark and the road is pale and the peaks behind them have that first cold light on them, and you just aim the truck into it and hope the composition finds you before the light moves. We went north through Bishop, stopped near June Lake. Pushed up toward Bridgeport. That’s the trip. It looks exactly like what you’d expect and nothing like what you’d plan. Mamiya 7 with the 65mm. Portra 400 rated at box speed. The light on 395 in the late afternoon does most of the work. The medium format negative picks up the gradients in a way the digital doesn’t, especially in that last hour when the valley goes pink and everything in the foreground goes flat brown. #highway395 #mamiya7 #portra400 #easternsierraphotography #landcruiser
