SCOTT MANSFIELD
In Repose

I wake before sunrise and head into the mountains west of Bend Oregon and into a brewing autumn storm. I drive up into a 10 square mile field of lava. The barren black rock folds onto itself extending in sharp relief to the horizon. The road that bisects this place will close for the winter in a few weeks. I park and hike to an overlook perch and setup my Hasselblad, load a roll of black and white film, and wait for sunrise. I put my eye to the viewfinder and there, within its bordered confines, my imagination opens. It’s always this way. The framed view becomes my canvas, my whole world. It is the place I am both lost and found. Landscape photography is an art of observation and discovery. Clouds stream east like flowing water. Rain begins to fall.

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