Normally associated with the west, Badlands are very rare in the east, except under certain unique conditions. Here we have badlands set on the shores of Lake Ontario in New York.
Here, the landscape is photographed at night and, through, ultra-long time exposures and the full moon’s illumination, I successfully furthered my specialty, illumination, by a full moon on color film. It was taken on film, at a time when no one really was doing any of this, let alone books of full moon photography, because of the inherent problems associated with film, including reciprocity and color shifts. I shot Kodak’s Ektar 25, the most highly resolved negative film ever made. Most importantly, there was very little reciprocity, relatively speaking, with this film. In old photography, with color film, you had to keep compensating exposure exponetially, increasing times, and, for a bright daylight film rated at ISO 25, it was the exact opposite of a film you would want for low light conditions.
Part of a larger book, This Bad Land, which are all in western states, and, with the exception of Mono Lake, are far from water.
