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I could not decide between the colour or BW for this image so I went with one of the best photographer ways of thinking.....eeny meeny miny mo, it turned out to be this one.
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Pahoa and Negit islands silhouetted against early morning lake reflections with desert mountains in the distance.
have posted a few other Mono Lake photos made at this somewhat elevated location some distance from the lake. This camera position gives a different and broader sense of the lake and its surroundings. It is a huge body of water — there’s far more water on the far side of the islands than between them and the near shore. The desert mountain are many miles beyond the far edge of the lake. All in all, Mono Basin is a place of huge space and great distances.
I photographed very early in the morning. I had gone to this location to photograph something else, but by merely turning my camera 180 degrees the lake was in the frame. It was a generally clear morning with some high clouds, but the great distances still turned the atmosphere a bit blue with haze, and that haze mutes the details of the far basin and mountains.
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Had a chance to visit the Mono Lake Tufa State Natural Reserve while on a Yosemite trip. I was looking for some formations isolated in the water, and found these on the East side of the park. I had just set up the camera when it started raining. Here's a tip-carry a towel and just put it over your camera while you wait out the rain. After 15 minutes or so the rain stopped and I was left with this very serene scene in front of me.
Finally getting around to sharing more photos from my recent 25-hour, 800-mile round trip adventure to Yosemite and back.
After the disappointment in the Yosemite valley because of a wildfire, and the four hour detour to Tenaya Lake for some Milky Way shooting we finally moved on to our final destination, Mono Lake, just in time for sunrise.
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I'm starting to think Mono Lake doesn't like me. I know that sounds odd but I've taken two trips over there inside of two weeks...the first trip a total bomb as it was terrible weather, snow, high winds, etc. So I went back to try again, and to meet up with MikeJonesPhoto to return his beloved lens cap (which I did reluctantly, it was a sweet lens cap!).
As crazy as it was, there was not a cloud in the sky so no dramatic sky's to enhance the moonscape scene of Mono Lake. So this shot above is not my typical style. I love detail and sillouette's are not my favorite but what I liked when I pulled this photo off my camera was the amazing gradients and color. This is a great example of just how great Canon sensors and glass are (shot this with a 5D with a 24-105mm).
I took this shot around 5am at the South Tufa's of Mono Lake. There was a slight breeze which created some small movement in the water so using an ND64 filter and cranking up to f/20 I was able to take a 15 second exposure to help smooth out the water.
Yes, that is a bird on the 2nd from the left Tufa. What kind, I'm not sure. This shot is best viewed LARGER to really appreciate the gradients.
South Tufa Area - Mono Lake - California
Nikon D700
18-35mm f/3.5 at 24mm
1.6 Seconds
f/11
ISO 200
Singh-Ray ND Grad
I received several emails asking why I took down my previous post. Basically, my use of the ND grad filter for that particular image, was poor, at best. So, after making things right with my conscience, I am posting this image from the same trip. Originally, I intended this to be one of a series of shots that were composed to be part of a panorama image. However, I decided to postpone that idea for another time, and just process this one RAW image. I still plan to post another image or two from this trip, and returning here before the end of winter, is very much back on the 'Trip List'.
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This image is from the first photo trip I took. The sunset this night was one that I will never forget.
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I don't often do this but I converted a picture I really liked in colour and now think I may prefer it in Mono. Posting here to see how the people vote...
Mono Lake, California USA. The tufa formations are from underground springs. As southern California has tapped the streams feeding the lake the water level has fallen and the formations are revealed.
Mono image of a corridor in a Berlin museum. I was attracted to the lines and the contrast of light and dark.
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A classic view of St Pauls with the Millennium Bridge in the foreground, but I'd never really got a shot of it I was totally happy with. I think this will do for now.
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I'm 100% certain that when I made the trip to Mono Lake from Mammoth Mountain a few years ago I ended up in the wrong spot to see the Tufa towers. That's what happens when you only partially research an area. I ended up using a long exposure because the water was really choppy. We didn't stay too long because the bugs were out of control.
This is one of those spots where I always tell myself I'll make it back to one of these days.
Mono Lake is a large, shallow saline soda lake in Mono County, California, formed at least 760,000 years ago as a terminal lake in an endorheic basin. The lack of an outlet causes high levels of salts to accumulate in the lake.
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Last week I did a close-up of two shells in colour on a light background, so I wanted to try doing one in mono on black... a sort of twist on a theme as well.
Mono Lake
The lake was barely visible under the fog, but still very beautiful. All roads leading to the lake and tuffa were closed due to all the snow, but we did manage to get up to Lee Vining without chains.
Not done many mono images lately so this one caught my eye as a prime candidate
This is an old pier that features in my images quite a lot as its five mins walk from my flat.
Normally there is a lot of clutter on the horizon but the fog prevented this.
Seeing my contacts' hare uploads makes me miss the times I had with the hares here! Not seen them for a while... so dug out some old shots and thought mono suited this one!
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Mono Lake is a large, shallow saline soda lake in Mono County, California, formed at least 760,000 years ago as a terminal lake in an endorheic basin. The lack of an outlet causes high levels of salts to accumulate in the lake. These salts also make the lake water alkaline.
This desert lake has an unusually productive ecosystem based on brine shrimp that thrive in its waters, and provides critical habitat for two million annual migratory birds that feed on the shrimp and alkali flies. Historically, the native Kutzadika'a people derived nutrition from the Ephydra hians pupae, which live in the shallow waters around the edge of the lake.
When the city of Los Angeles diverted water from the freshwater streams flowing into the lake, it lowered the lake level, which imperiled the migratory birds.
Mono Lake occupies part of the Mono Basin, an endorheic basin that has no outlet to the ocean. Dissolved salts in the runoff thus remain in the lake and raise the water's pH levels and salt concentration. The tributaries of Mono Lake include Lee Vining Creek, Rush Creek and Mill Creek which flows through Lundy Canyon.
The basin was formed by geological forces over the last five million years: basin and range crustal stretching and associated volcanism and faulting at the base of the Sierra Nevada. Five million years ago, the Sierra Nevada was an eroded set of rolling hills and Mono Basin and Owens Valley did not yet exist.
From 4.5 to 2.6 million years ago, large volumes of basalt were extruded around what is now Cowtrack Mountain (east and south of Mono Basin); eventually covering 300 square miles (780 km2) and reaching a maximum thickness of 600 feet (180 m). Later volcanism in the area occurred 3.8 million to 250,000 years ago. This activity was northwest of Mono Basin and included the formation of Aurora Crater, Beauty Peak, Cedar Hill (later an island in the highest stands of Mono Lake), and Mount Hicks.
Mono Lake is believed to have formed at least 760,000 years ago, dating back to the Long Valley eruption. Sediments located below the ash layer hint that Mono Lake could be a remnant of a larger and older lake that once covered a large part of Nevada and Utah, which would put it among the oldest lakes in North America. At its height during the most recent ice age, the lake would have been about 900 feet (270 m) deep. Prominent old shore lines, called strandlines by geologists, can be seen west of the Lake.
Currently, Mono Lake is in a geologically active area at the north end of the Mono–Inyo Craters volcanic chain and is close to Long Valley Caldera. Volcanic activity continues in the Mono Lake vicinity: the most recent eruption occurred 350 years ago, resulting in the formation of Paoha Island. Panum Crater (on the south shore of the lake) is an example of a combined rhyolite dome and cinder cone.
Tufa towers
Many columns of limestone rise above the surface of Mono Lake. These limestone towers consist primarily of calcium carbonate minerals such as calcite (CaCO3). This type of limestone rock is referred to as tufa, which is a term used for limestone that forms in low to moderate temperatures.