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Decided to go out to Mono Lake and try a sunrise. The day before I went to the main Tulfa area and got some reasonable dawn shots, but I really liked this view near Rte 395.
Dad piked out and had a sleep in, but I was rewarded by a lovely sunrise with lots of colour.
Just need to get a shotgun onto the damn ducks... they play havock with long exposures..... cloning tool worked overtime on this one.
Mono of Japan at Lee's Palace
April 25 2017 | Toronto, Canada
Tour RFH | Show 61
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This is Emmy doing what Emmy does best these days snuggled up nice and cosy in one of her many plush beds!
I hope you all had a lovely weekend and I wish you a good week ahead!
Early morning tufa towers, Mono Lake. Nesting Ospreys on top of the tall tower in the center. Usually Ospreys will nest within a mile or so of their favorite fishing spot, however there are no fish in Mono Lake - it's a saline lake that supports billions of brine shrimp that power the migration of millions of birds, but there isn't a single fish in the lake. The Ospreys choose to nest on the tufa towers and commute to their hunting grounds in the streams that feed into the lake because of the high level of security from predators like coyotes the towers offer.
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.
Mono Cliffs Provincial Park. It's not a big park but it tells of important geology along the Bruce Trail in Ontario.
I had a very pleasant hike here in cool fall weather. No bugs, no people, just me and my thoughts (and my camera).
This heart is made of Zippos ... it took all but one in my collection. Don't take this as some sort of smoking promotion; for it is definitely not ... considering that I effectively quit smoking sometime early in 2006! The image is incredible.
This particular version is made into a monochrome color and provides an incredible effect to the image.
Now, all I have to do is get them back into the correct boxes ...
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Peinado acompañante, peinado fiesta, recogido, moño boda, chongo, apanhado, penteado, Schick Madrid, peinado novias, recogido novia,
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Mono Lake South Tufas
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Mono Cliffs Provincial Park. It's not a big park but it tells of important geology along the Bruce Trail in Ontario.
I had a very pleasant hike here in cool fall weather. No bugs, no people, just me and my thoughts (and my camera).
A re-edit of a six year old impression.
The view across the north shore of Mono Lake, looking east as dawn's light grows ever brighter and warmer.
This August 2010 impression has been a personal favorite. It reminds me that not everything has to be captured after the sun finds its way up into the sky. Sometimes, visual magic occurs before that stage entrance.
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.
South Tufa, Mono Lake Tufa State Reserve, Mono County, CA, 10/11/2010
Linhof Master Technika 2000 camera, 210mm Rodenstock Sironar-N f/5.6 lens, Fujicolor Pro 160S film, 5 exposures, 280 megapixels
Mono Lake formed more than 760,000 years ago in an eastern California basin with no outlet to the ocean. Dissolved salts make the lake very alkaline and saline. This desert lake has a productive ecosystem based on brine shrimp that grow in the water, and critical nesting habitat for two million migratory birds that feed on the shrimp. With its high concentration of arsenic, Mono Lake is also home to GFAJ-1, a rod-shaped extremophile bacterium that can incorporate arsenic into its biochemistry! In 1941 the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power began diverting Mono Lake's tributary streams 350 miles south to meet the growing water demands of the city of Los Angeles. As a result, the lake shrank to half its natural volume while its surface dropped over 40 vertical feet. Thanks to the work of Stanford University graduate student David Gaines, the Mono Lake Committee, and other environmentalists Los Angeles eventually agreed to limit the amount of water it takes from the lake's sources and to partially restore the lake's size. Today the surface of Mono Lake is still much lower than it once was. As a result, alkaline sands and once-submerged tufa towers are exposed and form a unique and otherworldly landscape here. These fantastic tufa towers are a variety of limestone - calcium carbonate spires and knobs, formed by the precipitation of minerals during the interaction of freshwater springs and alkaline lake water. On this autumn day in the eastern Sierra the sky started out perfectly clear, but in the early afternoon the weather began gradually changing to storm conditions. While driving south on US 395 I spotted these beautiful cumulus clouds moving in from the west, and thought they might look nice over Mono Lake. I drove to the South Tufa area of the lake and was pleased to find this scene, complete with smooth reflective water and swimming ducks!
The battle of Britain memorial flight Lancaster seen in 2010 , a raw file I have only just processed into mono
Mono Lake Tufa State Natural Reserve
Lee Vining, CA
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Escultura de cantera en la cime de la cúpula del templo parroquial de San José Iturbide, Guanajuato.
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Pink quarry sculpture at the top of the dome of the parish temple of San José Iturbide, Guanajuato, Mexico.
Mono.
2nd May 2015,
La 2 de Apolo,
Barcelona.
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