You could be forgiven for thinking that I used some kind of crude colour-changing filter to make this image... but I didn't! It owes its other-worldly - almost Martian - colouration to the combination of time, weather and geology that I encountered on this evening at Orcombe Rocks, near Exmouth. This stretch of coast is famous for its red sandstone, and here the sea is turned salmon pink by an evening sky as the water laps over this small fissure eroded in the rock. The film I used to make this image, Fuji Velvia 100, is known for its strong response to red hues, and this has given the scene an overall fiery mood.
If water did once flow on the surface of Mars, perhaps this is how it would have looked?
Bronica SQAi, 50mm lens, 0.3 ND grad, Fuji Velvia 100.
© Copyright 2007 Ed Pavelin.
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