Sleeping Bear Sunburst
by Kris Rasmusson
Title
Sleeping Bear Sunburst
Artist
Kris Rasmusson
Medium
Photograph - Photography
Description
As amazing as the Sleeping Bear Sand Dunes are in summer they are arguably even more amazing in Winter. Starting on the leeward side at the Visitors Bureau on South Dune Highway you will scale a very steep dune and encounter an ominous sign that reads “Avalanches Stay Off”. If you’re adventurous you’ll just ignore the sign and soldier on up the 450 foot embankment and find the climb to be worth all the effort. On a cold day in late December of 1992 I found myself with Linhof camera on Gitzo tripod atop the mountainous dune. Before me were small undulating hills punctuated by the occasional tuft of intrepid dune grass with rows of spiny ridges that formed an icy marble cake with layer upon layer of sand and ice. In the distance an ominous stratus sky had been rent asunder by the swirling winds that live in the turbulent border twixt troposphere and stratosphere, seemingly impelled by the power of an equinoxic sun. I moved my gloveless hands frantically over the camera’s tilt and swing controls and finally turned the aperture ring to F22. The wind chill was well below zero. I snapped off but two 4 X 5 exposures and quickly donned Baxter gloves to venture off in search of another Sleeping Bear winterscape.
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May 11th, 2013
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