Orestor 135mm f2.8

Mono Lake in California

SONY DSC

The sunset in black and white

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The Tufa Towers in Mono Lake, California are limestone. They form from the interaction of fresh water from springs in the lake bottom with the mineral rich lake waters.

The New Shipyard (“Nya Varvet”) was commissioned in the year 1700 at the onset of the Great Northern War. Beside ship building, the area was used as a naval base and there was also room for a prison and a burial ground.

Mono etude. Just a small exploration of grey tones with Carl Zeiss Ultron and Raynox M-150

Mono Lake is an ancient salt lake containing copious brine shrimp and alkali flies that serve as food for migratory birds. Water diversion from the lake has lowered water levels exposing interesting limestone tufa formations. Mono County, California - USA

Mono Lake Info: www.monolake.org/learn/aboutmonolake/naturalhistory/

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Tufa towers are beautiful, and they are also important habitat, from nesting sites for Osprey and owls to underwater habitat for alkali flies. All tufa at Mono Lake forms underwater. Beneath Mono Lake, calcium-rich freshwater springs seep up from the lake bottom and mix with lake water rich in carbonates (think baking soda). As the calcium comes in contact with the carbonates in the lake, a chemical reaction occurs, resulting in calcium carbonate, or limestone. The calcium carbonate precipitates (settles out of solution as a solid) around the spring, and over the course of decades to centuries, a tufa tower will grow. Tufa towers can grow to heights of over 30 feet underwater.

OLYMPUS EM-1 Mark II

Taken with my new 7artisans 35mm on the Fuji

Theme - Childhood Toy

I chose marbles because in my first primary school there were drain covers in the playground and every break time there was a game of marbles played on those drains. It was the first one to get their marble into the hole at the other end of the drain. It was the big kids that played it but I was allowed to because I was so keen and because I had some nice marbles lol! Unfortunately I don't have those Marbles anymore but I did buy these from Brodie Countryfare a few months ago :))

California

Pastel colors light up the sky and tufa formations at Mono Lake at sunrise.

A shot from 3 years ago I had done in colour at the time but I felt it would work in mono so here it is.

A shot from a while ago on Crosby beach where Sie Atnony Gormley put Another place. I liked thisin mono

Carayá: Esteros del Iberá, Corrientes, Argentina

Alouatta caraya

Otros nombres: para Alouatta caraya: karadyá-hú o karadyá-hú (en guaraní), mono aullador, mono negro, mono barbudo, carayá negro, carayá común. Miceto, araguato, roncador, bugio preto, poû (en portugués), black howler monkey (inglés).

Estatus nacional:Alouatta caraya = Preocupación menor

Alouatta guariba = En Peligro (SAREM, 2006).

Estatus internacional:Alouatta caraya = LC (Preocupación menor)(IUCN, 2006)

Alouatta guarida= NT (Próximo a la amenaza)(IUCN, 2006).

Distribución geográfica

Ocupa desde el Mato Grosso, oeste de Minas Gerais y San Pablo (Brasil), este de Bolivia y Paraguay hasta el norte de la Argentina.

Características Físicas

Tienen un tamaño grande que los sitúa entre los monos neotropicales de mayor tamaño; sus extremidades son fuertes y algo cortas; su larga cola prensil presenta una zona desnuda en el tercio distal (Parera, 2002).

Hábitat

Ocupan zonas selváticas - con cierta preferencia a la proximidad de algún curso de agua-, selvas en galería, monte chaqueño, incluyendo partes del semixerófilo.

Son notablemente arborícolas, no descendiendo casi nunca al suelo.

Another glorious night - this time at Mono Lake. Taken with a Sony a9, ISO 800, f/4, 16mm, 23exposures at 4 minutes each then processed in Lightroom and Photoshop.