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Adjusted levels and processed through Silver Efex Pro, been busy with this house moving lark so haven't had time to get much photography in, so had to get my fix in Photoshop.
Mono Araña, Yucatán Spider Monkey, Ateles geoffroyi yucatanensis.
IUCN: Endangered
JARDÍN BOTÁNICO DR. ALFREDO BARRERA MARÍN
Estado de Quintana Roo
México
A lake with no drainage outlet near Lee Vining, California. Close proximity to the easternmost flank of the Sierra Nevada Range is seen in this photo.
A reserve was established to preserve the spectacular "tufa towers," calcium-carbonate spires and knobs formed by interaction of freshwater springs and alkaline lake water. It also protects the lake surface itself as well as the wetlands and other sensitive habitat for the 1 – 2 million birds that feed and rest at Mono Lake each year.
Mono Lake is a majestic body of water covering about 65 square miles. It is an ancient lake, over 1 million years old -- one of the oldest lakes in North America. It has no outlet.
Tufa is a variety of limestone formed when carbonate minerals precipitate out of ambient temperature water.
Mono Basin National Forest Scenic Area, California
I visited Mono Lake, just on the eastern Sierra from Yosemite, hoping for a good sunset. Lucky for me, Mother Nature cooperated. :)
Model is Lulu
Strobist info...
2 x Elinchrom D-Lite 2 flash heads (200w). One fitted with a dish and grid, the other with a softbox
Camera left was set up to achieve correct exposure at F11, 1/125s and ISO100/
Camera right was set to low power to lighten the shadows
Trigger was a Prolinca IR device on the hotshoe.
Startrails photo taken at the Mono Lake South Tufa area in California. I staked 572 exposures of 20 seconds taken with a 18mm f/4,8 lens at 1250 ISO. The landscape is illuminated by the moon.
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Near Fleet, 27-03-66
Battle of Britain class 34066 ’Spitfire’
Mono Lake, located in the eastern foothills of the Sierra Nevada mountains, east of Yosemite National Park. Paoha Island in the middle of the lake.
with a mere 285 HP the lightweight BAC Mono can accelerate to 60in just 2.8seconds, and reach 170mph. this center seated track day car is the car to beat when the track gets twisty, and outright speed is no longer king.
My Lego Version follows the real cars ideals in lightweight, and aggressive aero work. almost all the body panels are angled in one direction or another to mimic the extreme shaping of the original car.
Mark Twain described the Mono Lake as lifeless, treeless, hideous desert... the loneliest place on earth. Life is all about irony, I reckon as these lonely places on earth are the ones that will give you the best times of your life. This is one of my favorite takes of the trip, that magical moment happened just seconds after a sudden shift of light — needless to say, it made my day.
Taken at a wedding I recently had the pleasure of co-shooting, he was great entertainment during the meal.
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, making it among the oldest lakes in North America.
Mono Lake is a terminal lake in a watershed fed from melting runoff with no outlet. Dissolved salts in the runoff thus remain in the lake and raise the pH and the salt concentration.
Mono Lake is in a geologically active area at the north end of the Mono-Inyo Crater volcanic chain of the Long Valley Caldera. The geological activity is caused by faulting at the base of the Sierra Nevada, and is associated with the crustal stretching of the Basin and Range Province.
Volcanic activity continues in the Mono Lake vicinity: the most recent eruption occurred 250 years ago at Negit Island in Mono Lake. Panum Crater (on the south shore of the lake) is an excellent example of a combined rhyolite dome and cinder cone.
From Wikipedia
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Mono Lake (/ˈmoʊnoʊ/ MOH-noh) 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.
The Mono–Inyo Craters are a volcanic chain of craters, domes and lava flows in Mono County, Eastern California. The chain stretches 25 miles (40 km) from the northwest shore of Mono Lake to the south of Mammoth Mountain. The Mono Lake Volcanic Field forms the northernmost part of the chain and consists of two volcanic islands in the lake and one cinder cone volcano on its northwest shore. Most of the Mono Craters, which make up the bulk of the northern part of the Mono–Inyo chain, are phreatic (steam explosion) volcanoes that have since been either plugged or over-topped by rhyolite domes and lava flows. The Inyo Craters form much of the southern part of the chain and consist of phreatic explosion pits, and rhyolitic lava flows and domes. The southernmost part of the chain consists of fumaroles and explosion pits on Mammoth Mountain and a set of cinder cones south of the mountain; the latter are called the Red Cones.
Eruptions along the narrow fissure system under the chain began in the west moat of Long Valley Caldera 400,000 to 60,000 years ago. Mammoth Mountain was formed during this period. Multiple eruptions from 40,000 to 600 years ago created the Mono Craters and eruptions 5,000 to 500 years ago formed the Inyo Craters. Lava flows 5,000 years ago built the Red Cones, and explosion pits on Mammoth Mountain were excavated in the last 1,000 years. Uplift of Paoha Island in Mono Lake about 250 years ago is the most recent activity. These eruptions most likely originated from small magma bodies rather than from a single, large magma chamber like the one that produced the massive Long Valley Caldera eruption 760,000 years ago. During the past 3,000 years, eruptions have occurred every 250 to 700 years. In 1980, a series of earthquakes and uplift within and south of Long Valley Caldera indicated renewed activity in the area.
The region has been used by humans for centuries. Obsidian was collected by Mono Paiutes for making sharp tools and arrow points. Glassy rock continues to be removed in modern times for use as commercial scour and yard decoration. Mono Mills processed timber felled on or near the volcanoes for the nearby boomtown Bodie in the late 19th to early 20th centuries. Water diversions into the Los Angeles Aqueduct system from their natural outlets in Mono Lake started in 1941 after a water tunnel was cut under the Mono Craters. Mono Lake Volcanic Field and a large part of the Mono Craters gained some protection under Mono Basin National Forest Scenic Area in 1984. Resource use along all of the chain is managed by the United States Forest Service as part of Inyo National Forest. Various activities are possible along the chain, including hiking, bird watching, canoeing, skiing, and mountain biking.
Source: Wikipedia