{"id":1235,"date":"2011-04-03T08:30:13","date_gmt":"2011-04-03T08:30:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wonderland-photography.com\/blog\/?p=1235"},"modified":"2011-04-05T19:24:37","modified_gmt":"2011-04-05T19:24:37","slug":"sand-skin-%e2%80%a2-figure-studies-%e2%80%a2-nevada-desert","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wonderland-photography.com\/blog\/2011\/04\/03\/sand-skin-%e2%80%a2-figure-studies-%e2%80%a2-nevada-desert\/","title":{"rendered":"sand &#038; skin \u2022 figure studies \u2022 nevada desert"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I am digging into my film archives lately &amp; rediscovering some  wonderful images that I have not seen in a long time. I am surprised by  how the texture of film is really so different than digital&#8211;and how  much a I have missed grain &amp; didn&#8217;t know it. I&#8217;ve been seduced by  the clarity of countless pixels, feeling them to be clean like a shower  after many days of camping. But I love grain the way you love being  dirty &amp; sweaty those first days before the shower&#8211;luxuriating in  the texture that is your skin + nature.<\/p>\n<p>Max &amp; I wandered off the road into the sand dunes some years ago  in the desert outside of Las Vegas. It was a scorching hot day, but the  sand beckoned us to walk &amp; walk &amp; walk&#8230;and feeling it on my  skin when I laid down on it felt really sensuous&#8211;like the earth  massaging me with her warm hands.<\/p>\n<p>After a bit of shooting &amp; exploring, we found out upon trying to  leave that our car was bottomed out in the sand. After a few earnest but  futile attempts to escape, we followed the sound of ATVs signaling a  human presence that might help us. We trekked toward it &amp; found an  RV parked in the middle of nowhere on the dunes. Answering our knock at  the door, a man emerged looking quite baked by the sun (&amp; likely by  other substances), no doubt having been camped &amp; having an  ATV-driving brand of fun for more than a couple days. But as disheveled  as they were, he &amp; his friends (likewise baked) pulled our Ford Focus  out of the sand, chained to their muscle pick-up. Thank God.<\/p>\n<p>But before our detour, Max &amp; I shot some images of the desert  &amp; some figure studies. Here are some of mine. I think Max&#8217;s of me  are much more interesting&#8230;but then again, I took off a lot more  clothes than he did&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"p3-insert-all size-full aligncenter\" title=\"1213275810_yDDba-L-2\" src=\"http:\/\/www.wonderland-photography.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/1213275810_yDDba-L-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"557\" \/> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"p3-insert-all size-full aligncenter\" title=\"1213277501_hB9QQ-L-2\" src=\"http:\/\/www.wonderland-photography.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/1213277501_hB9QQ-L-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"547\" \/> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"p3-insert-all size-full aligncenter\" title=\"1213276083_Xgcho-L-2\" src=\"http:\/\/www.wonderland-photography.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/1213276083_Xgcho-L-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"522\" \/> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"p3-insert-all size-full aligncenter\" title=\"1213277551_FxmCR-L-2\" src=\"http:\/\/www.wonderland-photography.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/1213277551_FxmCR-L-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"545\" \/> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"p3-insert-all size-full aligncenter\" title=\"1213275948_4Ggnz-L-5\" src=\"http:\/\/www.wonderland-photography.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/1213275948_4Ggnz-L-5.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"549\" \/> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"p3-insert-all size-full aligncenter\" title=\"1213277637_Zo5TB-L-2\" src=\"http:\/\/www.wonderland-photography.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/1213277637_Zo5TB-L-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"540\" \/> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"p3-insert-all size-full aligncenter\" title=\"1213276287_Wgoen-L-2\" src=\"http:\/\/www.wonderland-photography.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/1213276287_Wgoen-L-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"545\" \/> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"p3-insert-all size-full aligncenter\" title=\"1213277442_zcs76-L-2\" src=\"http:\/\/www.wonderland-photography.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/1213277442_zcs76-L-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"550\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am digging into my film archives lately &amp; rediscovering some wonderful images that I have not seen in a long time. I am surprised by how the texture of film is really so different than digital&#8211;and how much a I have missed grain &amp; didn&#8217;t know it. I&#8217;ve been seduced by the clarity of&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,39],"tags":[33,28,31,12,26,109,114],"class_list":["post-1235","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-outdoors","category-personal","tag-black-white","tag-body","tag-naked","tag-natural","tag-on-location","tag-outdoors","tag-personal"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wonderland-photography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1235","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wonderland-photography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wonderland-photography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wonderland-photography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wonderland-photography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1235"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.wonderland-photography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1235\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1253,"href":"https:\/\/www.wonderland-photography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1235\/revisions\/1253"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wonderland-photography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1235"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wonderland-photography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1235"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wonderland-photography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1235"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}