Playground of My Youth

I spent my childhood in a small town in northwestern New Mexico. Vast open canyonlands highlighted by sandstone bluffs and cottonwood riverine areas were my personal playground. Years later, I realized how special such a playground was.

This photo was taken by a Hasselblad 500C medium format film camera with a Carl Zeiss Distagon 1:4 f=50mm lens and a Kowa O-81B ø67 filter using Fuji Neopan Acros film, the negative scanned by an Epson Perfection V600 and digitally rendered with Photoshop.