View allAll Photos Tagged Alabama
Happy Superbowl!
Just going through some shots from summer. One of the stops from our t&l summer road trip Light painting with Steve Sieren in Alabama Hills.
Thanks for looking.
This 2-minute video combines my after-dark shooting over the last few years in the Alabama Hills. Most everything was shot in the area of the famous arch, and almost all was shot without moonlight. My good friend Patti and I did go out one moonlit evening and those images will be obvious. For the time-lapse series, of course, it's moonless, just an occasional flicker by a flashlight or vehicle passing through. The middle time-lapse is simply a reiteration of the first, using a star trail build option that creates a new file for each added frame so you can see the star trail build like in real time. If you're really astute, in the last TL you can see the light from the moon roll up the arch as the moon sets behind the camera. BTW, this sequence From 2014 i frankly didn't remember shooting. What a great find.
There actually are a lot of arches in the Hills, but many are quite small. Mobius happens to have a well-marked trail.
The Alabama Hills have long been a favorite location of television and moviemakers since way back in the '20s. Depending on who's counting, the numbers range from over 150 to over 400 movies. The Lone Ranger was a personal favorite. In fact, the town of Lone Pine has a movie museum and an annual film festival. So this should explain the Western theme movie music I chose rather than something more ethereal.
The opening image is actually from a winter sunrise where the Sierras had been freshly dusted. You might also note that Mt. Whitney, the highest mountain in the Lower 48, can be seen through the arch.
Alabama Hills, Eastern Sierra, California
You would expect the location "Alabama Hills" to be somewhere in the state of Alabama, would you not? So why is it in California, on the other side of the country?
The name is a relic of the United States Civil War between the Union and the Confederacy. Prospectors in this region were Confederate partisans who were excited by the exploits of the Confederate warship CSS Alabama. They named many of their claims in honor of the warship. The name Alabama Hills eventually came to be applied to the entire region.
After the CSS Alabama was sunk off the coast of France in 1864 by the Union warship USS Kearsarge, prospectors supporting the Union started their own naming frenzy. A mining district, a town (now abandoned), and a mountain peak and pass were named Kearsarge.
Explored January 18, 2016
I confess, I read a lot of science fiction.
When I visit places like the Alabama Hills it's easy to pretend these structures are ancient relics from an extinct civilization.
What did these time eroded monoliths look like 50,000 years ago?
What events did they witness?
What stories could they tell?
The deafening silence of desert places such as this allows my imagination to run wild.
What do you imagine when you spend time in these holy places?
Just minutes before creating this image, I'd recorded a tutorial with Greg Snell for the F4 Road Trip. We wrapped the shoot and so Greg dashed off to film Adams tutorial just on the other side of that spikey rock there.
As I was walking out of the ravine in the crease of that big pointy rock, I spotted this strangely shaped boulder looking like a frozen wave.
As soon as I saw it, I thought 'that would make a perfect frame'. So, I shambled over to give it a closer look and went all of a quiver when I realized it would work and that the clouds were lighting up majestically.
As always, I assumed I had mere seconds before the light faded. With shaking hands and sweat pouring down my back, I went into full frenzy mode to capture the necessary frames to create this image.
I often wonder what I must look like muttering to myself in fits of joy and rage, faffing with my tripod, screaming at flat batteries and then whooping at glowing clouds.
Thankfully it was just the desert and I. Sharing a moment.
Thanks for looking
Gavin Hardcastle
General Dynamics F-16 Fighting Falcon
87-0379
F-16D Block 30H
100th Fighter Squadron (100 FS)
Alabama Air National Guard
Luke AFB, AZ USA
Orange Beach, Alabama dawn 11/28/09
Happy Saturday, ya'll!!! I hope you all had warmer things to do than be out in the pre-dawn chill like me this morning...LOL But after getting 4 hour's sleep after a late Flickr night, I even beat the alarm clock up, at 4 AM...(had it set for 4:30), and knew I had to take the weekend crap shoot of trying for a good sunrise! My insanity takes me PLACES...LOL!!! The temp was 43 degrees with 87% humidity (making for a damp cold) when I set up on the beach at around 5...and soon some nice color began to appear!
This first capture is a time lapse, 6.6 seconds, to catch the color as it began...note the wave motion on the shore edge!
As you'll notice, the skies change rapidly at the beach and these captures hardly look like the same sunrise but in a couple of them it looks like even two different skies...so much to try to capture! No wonder I didn't even notice that 2 1/2 hours of constant shooting had passed and I wondered why I was nearly frozen stiff!!! LOL Who cares about Beach Blanket Bingo...just give me the blanket!!! ; )
I couldn't get them cropped well enough for Flickr to format bigger main page views, so please take a few moments to view them Large...while I continue to thaw out! Have a great day, everyone!!! : )
When you look at the rocks of the Alabama Hills in Lone Pine, CA against a scarlet sunset sky you get something special and almost whimsical as your mind tries to think of what you're viewing. In this photo I see a whale starting a breach, with an elephant seal lifting his head to see the action. You might see something different, but it is fun to imagine.
.
...
Eastbound intermodal tonnage from the KCS sprints through the small town of Lincoln, Alabama on a perfectly clear Saturday morning. These trains come to the NS from the KCS at Meridian, Mississippi and typically make it almost all the way to Atlanta under the cover of darkness during the winter due the shorter days. This 24E however was held up in the Birmingham area for several hours during the night for unknown reasons, making for a rare opportunity to chase the train the entire length of the mountainous East End District from Birmingham to Austell.
The stars over rural Alabama are pretty amazing when there's no moon in the sky! I was out there doing some fishing this past weekend, and brought along the camera to try out some night shots. These cypress trees line the pathway to a small dock, on a lake that used to be used for catfish farming before being converted to a bass pond (there are some big fish in these ponds!). Learning to take better night shots is something that's been on my list of things to do once I upgraded to the full-frame camera. I'm very, very impressed with the low light performance of the new camera! Unfortunately my lens only stops down to f/4.0, so I'm more or less limited to ISO3200 or above to get an exposure that doesn't result in noticeable star trails. This equipment upgrading is just a never ending process - I guess now I'll just have to find a much faster lens for night photography :) I heard the Rokinon 14mm f/2.8 is a good affordable lens for night shots - does anyone have experience with this, or any other good night photography lens? I appreciate your comments if you do!
the mountains in the background have not had their colours desaturated in photoshop. as the sun goes down all the colour in rocks disappear.
having to re-upload this one.
We had a break in the crazy cold weather last weekend, decided to chance a sunset in our favorite spot.( I got Photomatix 4 for Christmas) and had to give it a whirl.
Morgan County, Alabama - 2020. Cotton fields white unto harvest are sometimes seen as "Southern Snow."
The Alabama Hills are a formation of rounded rocks and eroded hills set between the jagged peaks of the Sierra Nevada and the geologically complex Inyo Mountains. Both geologic features were shaped by the same uplifting occurring 100 million years ago. These hills received their name from prospectors and minors based on the confederate warship the CSS Alabama.
The Alabama Hills are a well known photography location thanks to Mobius Arch. However there are plenty of lesser known locations hiding in this area. This is the very nice Cyclops' skull arch.
Storm passing through Alabama. Lightning is a sudden electrostatic discharge occuring typically during a thunderstorm. This discharge occurs between electrically charged regions of a cloud (called intra-cloud lightning or IC), between two clouds (CC lightning), or between a cloud and the ground (CG lightning).
University of Alabama vs. University of Houston
10/6/2007
Final Score:
Alabama - 30
Houston - 24
Bryant-Denny Stadium
Tuscaloosa, Alabama
Water levels in ponds in our area are getting low; cows are being sold or moved to other pastures. This image reflects a lower than normal water level in the pond. Morgan County, Alabama. Spring 2016. (Photograph was taken from passenger side of moving vehicle.)
Alabama Hills are a rocky formation on the eastern slope of the Sierra Nevada mountains in the Owens Valley of California, near Lone Pine. Dozens of natural arches are among the main attractions at the Alabama Hills. The Mobius Arch is among the mostly photographed arches. You can see the snow capped Mount Whitney through the Arch. Mount Whitney is the tallest mountain in the contiguous United States.
Courtesy: Wikipedia