8x10 large-format black and white film photograph, Ilford HP5 Plus 400 pushed to ISO 1600, silver gelatin print on fiber-based paper, long exposure at f/64 for thirty seconds streaking clouds into horizontal light bands across the sky, zone system exposure, coarse silver halide grain in the mid-tones, infinite depth of field. A barren windswept basalt plateau, no vegetation, cracked dry earth extending to a flat horizon. Center of frame: a massive natural stone monolith, a single vertical column of weathered grey granite approximately forty feet tall, cylindrical, the upper third tapering to a rounded smooth crest, wider at the base where it meets a mound of broken talus, a deep vertical fissure running up the lower portion, the surface cracked and pitted, patches of orange lichen. The column casting a long shadow to the right across the plateau. Lower foreground: cracked mud, scattered smaller basalt rocks, a dry riverbed curving from lower left to lower right. Background: a flat horizon at the lower third, the sky filling the upper two-thirds, streaked cloud bands running horizontally from the long exposure, light from the upper left creating a bright edge on the monolith's left face and deep shadow on its right. Low contrast in the sky, high contrast on the rock surface, granite texture in sharp detail from the large-format negative. 8x10 large-format, silver gelatin, long exposure, cloud streaks, coarse grain, f/64.
