A Mysterious Medley of Boulders and Crags
The enthralling, jumbled landscape of the Alabama Hills rises to the foot of the Eastern Sierra's angular prominences, which appear almost as apparitions among tendrils and thin veils of fast moving morning clouds, near Lone Pine, California.
I was very fortunate this Holiday season to be able to take a couple of nice trips to different parts of California, the first a wonderful bit of travel enjoying California's sights, wine and food with my wife, and then later after the New Year catching up again with Josh Krasner for a short photography outing focused on the Eastern Sierra and Death Valley. I've briefly passed through a few areas in the Eastern Sierra in recent years--enough to realize the almost unmatched photographic opportunities available there, but not long enough to well explore where and how to begin photographing this splendorous and varied landscape. As it turned out, a storm and thick, low cloud cover limited us to only one good morning shoot, but it was an interesting one.
That morning, the clouds parted nicely to the southeast before dawn, giving us hope of nice alpenglow on the dramatic and snow-accented eastern faces of the Sierras--and, hopefully, also some beautiful light on the clouds hovering over and wisping between the towering peaks. Things never seem to go as planned in these situations though, and soon these very low and fast moving cloud formations began passing through in front of the peaks, blocking most of the alpenglow and cloud color opportunities, but happily leading to a few moodier and more mysterious layered visages. In this moment, just a little warm light found its way to the tumble of rock forms in the surrounding Alabama Hills before brushing the lower steeps of the Sierras, while the passing clouds rendered the higher or more distant peaks as little more than ethereal shapes, shadows or suggestions in the landscape. It was wonderful.
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A Mysterious Medley of Boulders and Crags
The enthralling, jumbled landscape of the Alabama Hills rises to the foot of the Eastern Sierra's angular prominences, which appear almost as apparitions among tendrils and thin veils of fast moving morning clouds, near Lone Pine, California.
I was very fortunate this Holiday season to be able to take a couple of nice trips to different parts of California, the first a wonderful bit of travel enjoying California's sights, wine and food with my wife, and then later after the New Year catching up again with Josh Krasner for a short photography outing focused on the Eastern Sierra and Death Valley. I've briefly passed through a few areas in the Eastern Sierra in recent years--enough to realize the almost unmatched photographic opportunities available there, but not long enough to well explore where and how to begin photographing this splendorous and varied landscape. As it turned out, a storm and thick, low cloud cover limited us to only one good morning shoot, but it was an interesting one.
That morning, the clouds parted nicely to the southeast before dawn, giving us hope of nice alpenglow on the dramatic and snow-accented eastern faces of the Sierras--and, hopefully, also some beautiful light on the clouds hovering over and wisping between the towering peaks. Things never seem to go as planned in these situations though, and soon these very low and fast moving cloud formations began passing through in front of the peaks, blocking most of the alpenglow and cloud color opportunities, but happily leading to a few moodier and more mysterious layered visages. In this moment, just a little warm light found its way to the tumble of rock forms in the surrounding Alabama Hills before brushing the lower steeps of the Sierras, while the passing clouds rendered the higher or more distant peaks as little more than ethereal shapes, shadows or suggestions in the landscape. It was wonderful.
Thanks for viewing!