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Start Point, South Devon. Conditions were not up to much, so I had a play to see what I could do. 10 Stop Kase Wolverine filter used.
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My 2 recent early starts have been less than fruitful due to the thick fog.
I must have been desperate for a shot to snap this clump of reeds but I quite like it in Black & White.
Picking up where I left off with my previous two posts, Gregg, Ryan and I arrived just after 4 AM at Mono Lake. Gregg and Ryan opted to stay behind at the car and catch some ZZ's as they were going to be driving home, but I had only been down next to the lake for about 10 minutes before both of them came down with their tripods. The sky looked very promising and it looked like out luck was about to change after a tough night of getting shut out at Glacier Point and a four hour delay in trying to get across the Tioga Pass.
This was my fourth time trying to shoot Mono Lake. On my previous three attempts I had either gotten up at 3:30 to make the drive over from Yosemite or had driven down from Reno and on all three tries, I had NO clouds whatsoever when I arrived, so I was more than a little excited to finally see partly cloudy skies above the lake when I arrived.
After shooting the Milky Way for a bit, I turned the camera on the lake and shot for about 90 minutes before the sun finally broke through the clouds. There were about 20 of us at that point, and we shot right up to 7 AM which was the time I had set as a deadline as I needed to get back for a birthday party. We then set off for the six hour drive back to Gregg's house, arriving exactly at 1 PM, 25 hours after we had set off the day before. All three of us were exhausted but had a great time shooting. I told the guys as we were leaving that I was hoping for a great sunset, good Milky Way shots, and a great sunrise. Two out of three ain't bad. We are already looking forward to our next excursion.
As the year draws to a close, many people share collections of their favorite images from past posts. While I could do the same, I prefer to focus on the wealth of unprocessed data waiting on my hard drives.
Here’s a newly processed image from Mono Lake, which had been sitting in my backlog for far too long. It captures a memorable moment from the final night of my 2023 astrophotography trip.
The plan was to meet my friend Roi Levi, who drove up from L.A. to join me. Unfortunately, his car broke down just a few miles from Mono Lake. But that didn’t stop him - true to his dedication, he instructed the tow truck driver to drop him at our meeting point. Once there, he transferred his gear into my car, and we spent the night photographing the stunning tufas of Mono Lake.
His determination was well rewarded: we were treated to perfect conditions and a brilliant display of airglow along the horizon. For this panorama, I aimed to enhance the sky’s vibrant colors with subtle low-level lighting on the foreground. The result is, certainly, as colorful as a mono image can get.
EXIF
Canon EOS-R, astro-modified
Sigma 28mm f/1.4 ART
IDAS NBZ filter
iOptron SkyTracker Pro
Low Level Lighting
Sky:
Panorama of 11 panels, each a stack of 7x 45s @ ISO1600, unfiltered & 3x 105s @ ISO6400, filtered
Forground:
Panorama of 11x 60s @ ISO3200
Another view of the very impressive and beautiful Margerie Glacier (Alaska)
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Maple leaf on tarmac.
I thought this would be a good subject for mono, and then I made the mistake of trying it in Nik ColorEfex which proved to be more interesting (at least for playing.
This is 1 of 2: the Nik Silver Efex version with lots of grit and detail. Hope you enjoy both anyway.
For my 100x Way Behind project, lol.
Thank you for taking the time to look. I hope you enjoy the image :)
it's the start of another Polaroid Week, hooray! this is from nearly a year ago, on my trip driving from CA to Colorado last June -- and starting to prepare for another one about a month from now!
polaroid week, day 1, image 1
Not the most colorful snack but then the earthtone snacks are the most health, Dried Turkish Figs and Walnuts for the Flickr Friday Snack.
I thought this image captured today would work nicely as a mono.
I revisited the park where springs keep a section of water open all winter. We are now finally in full spring melt so there is a vast span of open water where twenty days ago had been ice. As a result, there were not as many swans congregating where they do when the ice is competing with the springs for dominance. There was one juvenile that appeared to be losing its grey feathers and getting the snow white plumage indicative of an adult. That swan was curious enough to make its way to the shore where I was located. I captured this image on its approach.
My old Minolta 135mm manual lens was attached to the a6000.
Mono Lake is a saline soda lake in Mono County, California, formed at least 760,000 years ago. The lack of an outlet causes high levels of salts to accumulate in the lake and make the water alkaline. As such, it can be a bit stinky. So, although you may not want to swim in her waters, she is lovely to photograph, especially as the sun sets.
Salty tufa's @ mono Lake...
After Yosemite, we spent the night at mono lake to split the long drive to Death Valley. Windy conditions at sunset made it a challenge to get a sharp LE at the tufas. Also, nobody told me about the mud and the quiksand on the way to get there :-)) I did not have the time to seach for many compositions, but here is one of the results...
Cz 50mm,10 stop nd (Lee big stopper), Nd 0.3 soft grad.