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The Sands

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There were several stages of this series of images. Stages in shooting, in printing, in critique, in reprinting. Even the actual creation of the original raven in the sand had to be redone because when the tide came in, it washed away immediately, without the slow, organic decay that I was originally looking for. I worked within the constraints of what I was able to do. When the first raven washed away, I decided to have my assistant (one of the only images that I actually had someone else present during shooting) bring me water and wash the raven away and more slowly, with cup fulls of water instead of the power of the ocean herself, and the resulting images were prolific and highly varied. During the processing, I must have accidentally been a little over aggressive, as there is evidence of surge at the edges, where the negatives were somewhat more dense. In the first round, this didn't really work to my advantage, as you can see in the images below. In this first one, the