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Look up. Look out.img434, with story

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I took this image because I doubted what I was seeing, and wanted visual proof.  

On my VW microbus trip across America, in 1973, I stopped in Colorado Springs, Colorado to visit the Garden of the Gods.  It is an awe inspiring group of small mountains in the region.  While I was setting up my camera here and there I glanced up to the top of the tallest peak and saw what appeared to be two people at the crest.  It is a rugged peak and they must have struggled to ascend.  With their glory of reaching the peak they had some view.

I took this photo with a 150mm Zeiss Sonnar on my Hasselblad 500C using Kodak Tri-X 120 panchromatic film.

I played around with color washes, first tobacco, then light blue, but since I could not make up my mind, I left it in black and white.

I left this as a larger file so you could magnify the image to see the climbers.  Keep looking and the people come into view at the peak, and you then can scan down to see the magnitude of the climb.

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pearwood's avatar

A beautiful photograph, even better with the people and story. I would say they might have gotten there by helicopter, except that I would not have attempted the drop off.