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Mono Lake, formerly known as the home of the arsenic-based life that wasn't, is a high desert lake with no natural outflows; because of this, it's extremely high in minerals and also extremely basic (ph 10). Don't drink it!
Monotonal wallpaper sticker collage on electricity box in Leicester by Bollox , Stoln`Recovrd and Mister Breakfast
Another from Pant Maenog Forrest near Rosebush in north Pembrokeshire.
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Mono @ Buenos Aires, 04 Septiembre, 2015
www.indiehearts.com/shows/mono-en-niceto-club-entre-el-su...
live @ Uebel & Gefährlich, Hamburg, Nov-21-2016
Digital Harinezumi 4.0
german review and more pictures: derohlsen.blogspot.de/2016/11/mono-alcest-pglost-live-im-...
this is south tufa. the best place to get shots of the formations called tufas. more info on mono lake tufas at- itotd.com/articles/481/tufa/
Mono Lake has been called “California’s Dead Sea,” but it’s actually a life-support system for great numbers of birds. California gulls fly in from the coast to nest on the lake’s isles. An estimated 90 percent of the state’s population of this gull is born on Mono Lake.
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.
Another shot of Mono, this time I opened the lens all the way up to f/1.4 to see what I could get - fluffy white fur with a sharp nose. Would have preferred the eyes a little more in focus but I still like it :)
113 Pictures in 2013: #03 Canine
Mono Lake Tufa shot near Navy Beach just sfter sunset.
Oct 2011
Canon EOS 5D Mark II
EF14-40mm f/4L
Focal Length 28mm
Shutter Speed 30 Seconds
Aperture 11
ISO Speed 100
Hitech Soft 0.6ND Grad
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 a basin that has no outlet to the ocean. 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 nesting habitat for two million annual migratory birds that feed on the shrimp.
The human history of Mono Lake is associated with its productive ecosystem. The native Kutzadika'a people derived nutrition from the larvae of the alkali flies that live in the lake. When the city of Los Angeles diverted water from flowing into the lake, it lowered the lake level, which imperiled the migratory birds. The Mono Lake Committee formed in response, winning a legal battle that forced Los Angeles to partially restore the lake level.
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My handwriting was never that neat - so it should be no surprise that it's equally scruffy when I tried to paint the word "mono" with the light of a torch
Sept 2007 - in Baron Grayson's Sanctum Sanctorum
Mono no aware -
is described in "Japan: An Illustrated Encyclopedia", as "a deep, empathetic appreciation of the ephemeral beauty manifest in nature and human life, and it is therefore usually tinged with a hint of sadness".
Here are few quotes from a Utata article by Gary Fallis on Mono No Aware :
""The sound of the bell of Gion shôja
echoes out the impermanence of all things."
"So begins the Japanese classic Tale of the Heike Clan. In those few words we find the expression of a worldview that suggests life is as short and as hauntingly beautiful as the thrum of a bell resonating in a courtyard. A gentle sadness accompanies that perspective. The Japanese call it mono no aware.
Nothing lasts. All existence is as ephemeral as a passing shadow. But knowing that everyone and everything will wither and fade isn't cause for existential despair; instead it offers us the chance to more fully and deeply appreciate the world now. The very transience of nature intensifies its beauty. The inevitable ending of that beauty touches and moves us. At its heart, mono no aware is about cherishing and being connected to the moment. It's appreciating what is, exactly as it is, mindful that it will eventually be gone.
We are haunted by all the moments that have passed, the great moments and the small. A dusty cigar box resting on the dashboard of an old car stored in a shed reveals such a moment. It doesn't matter who sat in the car and smoked the cigars, it doesn't matter what things were said or what thoughts were considered; what matters is knowing the moment took place and now is forever gone.
It's a pleasurable sadness. Although the moment has long since passed, it continues to resonate. We can feel that moment in our bones, like the lingering, melancholy tone of a bell echoing through the courtyard at Gion shôja."