Wave - Oconaluftee River Steve Dixon
Technical and Purchase Information
Camera/Lens: Arca Swiss view 210mm Nikkor
Format: 6x9
Film: 120 TMAX 100
Print Sizes Available: 8x10,11x14, 16x20
All prints are on double-weight fiber-based paper, archivally processed, selenium
toned, signed and dry-mounted. Mats are archival quality and acid free. Actual
print sizes may vary slightly.
Catalog Numbers:
8x10 - 10137
11x14 - 14137 Order Prints
16x20 - 20137
I was camping at Smokemont campground with an old friend, and we took a little post-breakfast hike on one
of the trails that start in the campground. On the way back to camp, I saw this standing wave with the light falling
on the water in such a way that the lines in the water looked like strands of long, silky hair, glistening in the sun.
While setting up to shoot this, I dropped a lens in the water. You can't get a shutter out of the water fast
enough. We took the glass out and dried the shutter over the coals of the fire on a piece of aluminum foil, but
the blades rusted anyway. Luckily, it was an old Graflex shutter and I had another one at home that only needed
a small repair. It was worth it, I guess.