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This was taken just a few minutes after the more orange shot that I took here.
In reviewing the shots from my Fall colors trip last Fall, I've discovered that there are a lot of decent shots in RAW format that I simply never got around to converting to JPEG, so they've been invisible to me as I occasionally browse through those folders in Windows!
Limestone tufa towers reflect in Mono Lake as the full moon, still dimmed in the final stages of the August 2007 lunar eclipse, sets before dawn light strikes California's Sierra Nevada range.
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UPDATE MARCH 2011: At Mono Lake on Monday morning March 21 the moon, still 97.6% full, is scheduled to set at 7:47am after a 6:59am sunrise. The apparent moonset however, when it dips behind Mt. Dana, will be around 7:16am (at an azimuth angle of 247 degrees, a direction slightly north of southwest). So the moon will be prominent in the western sky during the best sunrise light (roughly 6:30 to 7) and as the alpenglow from the emerging sun creeps down the face of Mt. Dana and the eastern slope of the Sierra Nevada towards Mono Lake.
While the term "supermoon" has been invented specifically to apply to a full moon coinciding with the perigee of the moon's orbit (the point of its 27.322 day orbit closest to earth) on Monday less than 2 days after the full moon, the moon will still be close and large.
For Mono Lake specifically, there one one potentially unfortunate aspect of the particular lineup of this full moon set. At 6:30am when a few dedicated photographers may be in place at the South Tufa site and shooting back towards Mt. Dana from the farthest cove, the moon will be directly in line with the beaches leading back to where the trailhead from the parking lot arrives at the lake. Any additional photographers arriving late for twilight/sunrise shooting will walk directly into the shots of the folks who were there on time. If they're shooting timelapse sequences, usable results could be difficult and time consuming (if not impossible) to salvage.
So if you do go to Mono Lake, please try not to storm in with flashlights blaring, and resist the temptation to walk thoughtlessly right out onto the scene and shoot your way down the shore. Instead stay far to your right, away from the lakeshore, and move quickly to join the other photographers at the far side of the second cove. The route is pretty easy to see on Google Earth or The Photographer's Ephemeris (even if you've never been to Mono Lake before, you can see a path curving to the right behind a large tufa tower at the end of the first cove). A little courtesy will go a long way towards making all of our shots more useful. Of course the more people who arrive, the more clueless or self-absorbed, narcissistic ones who will wander recklessly into and out of everyone's shots. Once a dozen or more people are onsite, things pretty much degenerate into chaos (and I've seen 60+ people show up for Fall sunrises here). Your best defense when shooting west will be to minimize dry land in your foreground, and shoot mainly over the water where it'll be more difficult for people to interfere with you. The former island on the left in this shot however is now a peninsula, so in some cases it may be next to impossible to completely negate the impact of the crowds.
Here's a list of other close, large "super moon" dates for 2011 and beyond:
God rays over the Sierra from 395 just north of Lone Pine
Three shot HDR. Thanks for stopping by critiques always welcome.
Limestone tufa formations just before dawn at Mono Lake, California. For more shots from my travels, check out my blog: www.activesole.blogspot.com.
This site is virtually unknown to most photographers who visit Mono Lake, but I can I can show you where it is when I lead a seminar there next June. For more information check my blog. The timing should be perfect to catch fields of wild iris blooming, the ghost town of Bodie, hot springs, and hopefully the Tioga Pass area, Tuolumne Meadows in Yosemite National Park, and Devil's Postpile before the Summer crowds arrive! Contact me for more details.
I found this spot while researching a guide to photography at Mono Lake (I'm still working on the draft). I've been driving by the lake for decades, but while researching the book I got to know Mono Lake's story. Home to 2 million birds that use the brine shrimp and alkali flies as a critical food source, the lake is a critical breeding and migration stop. Approximately 90% of California's gulls are hatched and raised here.
Water diversions since 1941 to feed development in the desert suburbs surrounding Los Angeles have drawn down the lake significantly. As the water level dropped, the lake has grown in salinity to become 3 times saltier than the ocean, and the population of alkali flies has plummeted. Los Angeles has already drained Owens Lake completely dry (it's now a dust bowl), and the mighty Colorado River is now pumped dry before it reaches the Gulf of California.
Urban planners are allowing growth that will drive state's population to grow by tens of millions more by 2020, while climate scientists are forecasting the demise of the Sierra snowpack and the dessication of California's lands due to global climate change. California's lack of growth controls are going to cause enormous water shortage and social issues, and the knee-jerk reactions to pursue the dwindling water resources for residential and agricultural use will fuel environmental disasters.
Again the clouds this weekend in the Sierra were epic. Driving home the clouds were hanging over the mountains so everything was a kind of dull grey. Then as we got farther south on 395 the clouds started to break up the light spilled through like water in a crumbling damn. That is the thing about the Sierra, if you are patient, incredibly beautiful things will pop up all around you. Have to thank my wife as she was on the passenger side and told me I should stop and take some pictures.
Thanks for stopping by. Comments and critiques are always appreciated.
I have seen many beautiful photos of Convict Lake in the Eastern Sierras. This is the first time I have been there.
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For this shot I edited out the star trail smear of the eclipsed moon as it moved across the sky, and replaced its trail with several still shots of the moon in various phases of eclipse.
The blue streak along the shore is another photographer walking with a halogen headlamp on while I exposed the star trail shot for about 10 minutes.
I assume the reason that the moon rides the line between where the stars curve one way and the other is becuse it travels between the north and south hemisphere, and I used a lens at 10mm (16mm equivalent on a 35mm camera). Facing southwest I caught some stars that would appear to rotate around the North Star, and some in the southern sky that would appear to rotate around an analogous point down there (wherever the earth's southern axis points).
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A Crane ( sorry I meant to say Great Blue Heron), in the water at Diaz Lake, at sunrise, one morning while we were camping. He took off right arter this but I never got a good shot of him in flight.
It has started to get really hot here at home, so I though I would show a photo of Diaz Lake where we camped last Oct. It rained a couple of days and it was so beautiful.
“Imagine” Another shot of the infamous Mono Lake Tufas. Near the top you can see the galaxy of Andromeda. Hard to believe it’s 2.5 million light-years from earth. Some say it’s going to collide with the Milky Way in 4 billion years. Oh to be stuck on earth!
Rock Creek from the end of the road at Mosquito Flats. Elevation 10,200' / 3,108 meters.
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An early morning shot of an abandoned cabin near Mono Lake.
I just found out about Flickr's Explore... this shot was featured there (Highest position: 436 on Tuesday, January 22, 2008). You can find if your photos have been there via a search on Scout, such as this:
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Salt-crusted brush on the shore of Mono Lake, California.
Salt-crusted sagebrush in the warm glow of sunrise alongside Mono Lake in California.
Mono Lake is almost three times saltier than the ocean. Its inflowing streams had been diverted to supply water to the City of Los Angeles, but since 2 million birds use the lake for migration or nesting, a court order has been issued to partially restore the lakes's level. This provides some interesting photo opportunities as the lake slowly floods ground that the water hasn't reached in decades.
The full moon rises at sunset over Mono Lake, California.
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The Milky Way rising over the Eastern Sierra's. Looking east from Alabama Hills. Located in Lone Pine, CA. the orange glow is the distance is the lights from Las Vegas.
Taken at 9:52pm. Shot at 17mm, iso 6400, f2.8 at 25 seconds. Edited using PS CS2 and Topaz Labs software.
Death Valley National Park, California.
I just found out about Flickr's Explore... this shot was featured there (Highest position: 410 on Sunday, December 9, 2007). You can find if your photos have been there via a search on Scout, such as this:
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Prime location. Right at the Sierras' foothill. Very cozy with spacious windows and skylights. Convenient access to Highway 395 and June Lake..... For this real estate picture, I took two shots with F2 and F11. After viewing the images on my monitor, I preferred the F2 version as the shallow depth of field seemed to make the house pop even more. I had passed by this house on HWY 395 numerous times and thought it had a charming character. So, last weekend I pulled over to the highway shoulder and took some pictures of this house.
It's autumn in eastern sierra on Green Creek. Reflected light with autumn colors adds so much to the water. 2m12727
January 24 Explored # 88 Thanks to all that stopped by to view!
I had chosen to set up for the sunrise on Movie Road instead of the Mobius Arch.
I am glad I did because when I did go there where a bunch of photographers there. I took a few shots but went on to other spots.
When I checked my shots I had over exposed some of the arch pictures where I liked the composition. So I went back later in the morning.
I am glad I did. No one around and I had a bright blue sky with clouds (none were to be had at sunrise) and the shadows were more to my liking.
Yes there are a ton of pictures of the arch but this came out kind of cool.
Off Hwy 395 in California, Lake Lundy sits quietly beneath the granite walls that back up to it. Popular during the Fall for it's bright colors, this is a favorite spot. Sadly, these trees no longer exist, as Mother Nature changes constantly. I am grateful I had the opportunity to capture them on this particular day, when the breeze was low, a slight mist still clung to the water's edge, and the reflection was bright. It was one of those days you could sit and absorb the quiet, enjoy the peacefulness.
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Highway 88 cuts through the California Sierra Nevada Mountain range and the fall colors in this area is some of the best in the western United States. This year I finally made a trip to the area near Lake Tahoe and found this image just off the main road, plus a little walk. I played with the final cropping for along time before deciding on panoramic. The image was made with a Mamiya 645M, 55mm lens and a polarizing filter on Fuji Velvia 100 film.
Midnight in Bodie at the I.O.O.F. Hall and Dechhambeau Hotel. Lighting on the buildings backside was from my Brinkmann Xenon light. Jeff's Bodie night photography workshop.
I decided to try a little in-camera artistry with this aspen shot. I moved the camera vertically during a long exposure to get this effect, and then softened it slightly in Lightroom by cranking down the clarity slider by about 20%.
This is a whole new thing for me, so I'd love any feedback you care to offer.
Update 12/14/2010: I just learned that this is one of two of my images that were selected for the Yosemite Renaissance 26 Exhibition, and I'm thrilled and honored.
Sometimes when you go to look for something you find something else just as beautiful. It was our first trip to our place in Mammoth since December and we had multiple purposes.
1. To get back to the place we love so much, it had been too long
2. Do some work on the condo
3. Get on some hikes to start getting back in shape
4. Find the petroglyph sites I have not seen in person yet.
I got skunked on number four! I have found Sky Rock but have never seen the Thirteen Moons. To be honest, I had not done my homework and was going on the basic knowledge that it is located somewhere near Sky Rock. That was not good enough. After a couple of hours searching had to give up.
But all was not lost. I am terribly out of shape and I need to get in shape pretty fast for hiking season. So it was ironic that the one of the things I was trying fix actually gave me the best thing of the hike. Out of shape and huffing it up that steep I had to stop multiple times to catch my breath. Each time the view was stunning and I would set up my tripod and capture the changing light of the sunrise. I must have four or five different sets of pictures as I gained more altitude. The perspective was a little bit different each time I stopped a little bit higher on the bluff. Same for the light and the clouds.
So I had a lot of choices in picking which one had the best composition, light, cloud pattern. This is the one I liked the best. So while I did not find the 13 Moon petroglyph I did come up with an image that made my heart pump with excitement as saw it when I got home.
Now I have to do my homework and get a better sense for where the moons are before my next trip up the bluff!
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Mammoth Lakes, CA just before sunset :]
The sun is shining bright here this morning, & it's a busy day. Yay :D
However, not the best Flickr mail to wake up to:
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Have an amazing week!
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