Lately I have been having dreams of the desert. A very specific desert in the southwest quarter of the state of Oregon. I consider the Oregon Dunes to be a very magical place and I wish I could spend more time there. Oregon tends to be better known for its lush forests and heavy rainfall but few know it is also home to one of the largest coastal sand dunes in the world.
Out of all the places I have ever been in my life, I have experienced more solitude in the Oregon Dunes than anywhere else.
Every so often I get a wild notion to use the absolute wrong film for a given situation. In this case I thought it would be a good idea to work with Ilford Delta 3200 film in the bright sun of the desert. I had to work with the film at 1/500th of a second (the fastest a Minolta SRT-101 can go), f/22, and a two stop neutral density filter. Even with these settings the frames still came out a little bit over-exposed.
I thought the landscape of the Oregon Dunes would look pretty cool with the heavy grain of Ilford Delta 3200 film. Turns out I was right about that.