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A week wit projector lenses: KodakSlide Projection FF 100mm f2.8. A lens that gives probably. the most satisfying ratio between image quality and price.
A very 100mm f2.8 triplet bubbly bokeh. Decent sharpness. Needs sunshine to get strong colours.
Needs work in PP but for 20$ and less it is worth of effort.
These very cool deposits at Mono Lake made for some spectacular foreground for the already amazing milky way. The lake in front offered a great reflection as well. This is a combination of about 5 shots.
I like this view of snow capped peaks of the 'Sierra Nevada Mountains, a large tufa formation that resembles castle ruins on an island, and the highly saline green water of Mono Lake.
Thanks for stopping by!
© Melissa Post 2025
In Explore 21 June 2025
Sunset light there at this pretty location in California located just outside Yosemite National Park.
A shot from Avon Beach at Mudeford looking across to The Needles on the western point of The Isle of Wight .
A great spot to look over The Solent and The Hungry Lobster does a good Fish & Chips !!
Next stop... Mono Lake... Continuing my review of my nine month roadtrip. Early June, I was at Mono Lake. It is one of the most bizarre places on Earth. A strange salty lake with these crazy limestone Tufas sticking out around the edge. It is just outside of the eastern entrance of Yosemite National Park. I shot this one shortly after sunrise.
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Pleased to get some feedback in this years Mono Awards.
The Mono Awards are open to citizens and residents of Australia and New Zealand. Amateur and professional photographers are welcome to enter.
Australian Photography magazine.
I had a few comments on my last Mono Lake photo asking exactly what these things are. Let me try to explain this bizarre place. Mono Lake is three times saltier than the ocean, and 100 times more alkaline. There are six rivers that flow into Mono Lake. No rivers flow out. The water just sits there and slowly evaporates. About 50 years ago, LA diverted some of the water flow from those rivers to feed their reservoir. Since then the water level in the lake has been slowly dropping. Below the surface of the lake are thousands of natural springs. When the mineral rich spring water enters the nasty water of the lake, it creates mineral deposits that build up into these these limestone Tufas. All this stuff used to be underwater. As the water slowly evaporates, it reveals all this cool stuff that has been buried under water for thousands of years.
Here I explore the tufa formations of Mono Lake with a 260 degree panorama. The image was constructed from 6 vertical frames. What a wicked cool place!
Image Notes: frames combined with Microsoft Ice. Ice is free, give it a shot!
From one of last week's sunsets at Mono Lake. This night the clouds were too thick to the West to allow for much color at this point after the sunset...but the clouds and reflections were a blast to work with....
If you have the time, double click to view on black...
Explored! Thanks for stopping by folks.
This place is pretty spectacular to explore...the bugs flying at your face and landing all over you was quite annoying though!
Mono Lake Sunset — Sometimes we're just suckers for a beautiful sunset. Today is one of those days. This sunset was taken over Mono Lake in California. The Mono Lake volcanic field, east of Yosemite National Park and north of the Mono Craters, consists of vents within Mono Lake and on its north shore. The most topographically prominent feature, Black Point, is an initially sublacustral (below lake level) basaltic cone that rises above the northwest shore and was formed about 13,300 years ago when Mono Lake was higher. Lava domes and flows form Negit and parts of Paoha islands within Mono Lake. The most recent eruptive activity in the Long Valley to Mono Lake region took place about 300 years ago, when lake-bottom sediments forming much of Paoha Island were uplifted by intrusion of a rhyolitic cryptodome. Spectacular tufa towers also line the shores of Mono Lake.
Thanks to Sue B (firago on Flickr) for sharing this photo with the USGS Science in Action Flickr Group! Share your earth science photo for a chance to be featured in upcoming USGS products and social media: www.flickr.com/groups/usgsscience
This looks like a moon shot at night but its a sunset in black and white. Have a great weekend!
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When I was out with the camera last weekend, I had a go at a mono shot in the misty woods.
What do you think,
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Mono Lake is located in Mono County, California, east of the Sierra Nevada mountain range. The lake was formed at least 760,000 years ago. Many columns of limestone rock rise above the surface of Mono Lake, creating the appearance of a science fiction landscape. These limestone towers are referred to as tufas, which is a term used for limestone that forms in low to moderate temperatures.
This image was generated and has been enhanced with the assistance of several digital imaging software programs, including Topaz Photo AI, Photoshop CC, Snapseed, and Midjourney.
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