Last Light

East Orleans in October "Sometimes when pursuing a sunset on the Cape, I go east instead of west, especially if there are no clouds in the western sky. If there is enough moisture in the atmosphere above the eastern horizon, the setting sun, through the backscattering of reddened light, creates an ephemeral pink band in the eastern sky. The Victorian's called it the "Belt of Venus". It is difficult to predict, happens only a few times a month and lasts only minutre before it is overtaken by the rising blue shadow of the earth projected in the atmosphere by the setting sun. Using a slow shutter speed, I let the crashing wave paint the film with its frothy freefall. Then I waited and watched the earth's spin deliver a memorable night rise. -Jon Vaughan, Photographer Fine Art 11” x 14” Photograph by Jon Vaughan, dry mounted on acid-free foam board, custom cut and hinged on an acid-free matte. Additional sizes of this image may be available. Please call (508) 945-1288 for more info.

Processes and Materials

This photograph is dry-mounted and personally hand signed by Jon Vaughan on the back, including the title, location and time of year. It is an open edition print on archival pulp paper with archival pigment inks. Please treat it with the same care you would give to watercolor art - framed behind glass and protected from direct sunlight and excessive humidity. The print is permanently dry mounted on acid-free foam board. Then an acid and lignin free mat (Crescent Select - White Sands) is custom cut and museum hinged to the mounting board. The finished piece is protected in a custom sleeve of high clarity archival Mylar film. All of the mounting, matting and framing is done at Yankee Ingenuity. Bob Korn, of Bob Korn Imaging, printed this image, as well as all of Jon Vaughan's images since 1981.