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Tufa towers were originally formed when the lake was much larger and underground springs released in the highly mineralized water of Mono Lake.
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While driving on the road toward the Mono Lake, in California, we found ourselves before this great nature show. A great storm was approaching from Yosemite. How not to stop the car and take some photos?
Another 1 of the many images I took at Mono Lake of what was simply a stunning sunset with the lenticular cloud forming in just the right spot and the last rays of the sun catching the clouds beautifully.
Do you ever go look at old images and realize you completely overlooked an image. I look at the ones I chose to process back then and how I processed them and realize I would not choose those images nowadays. This is an overlooked image, I've never touched it until tonight. I remember that evening - it was cold, in November but it was one of those years where the snow had held off. A beautiful evening, beautiful light and clouds, and the lake was still. I have some great reflection shots from that night. I hadn't realized just how far digital cameras had come until looking closely at this image - it doesn't have near the megapixels cameras have nowadays, the image had more noise than it should have had at those settings (I used a topaz noise removal program) but still...it was freeing to be able to experiment and not have to be concerned about film development costs.
Located east of Yosemite National Park, the Mono Craters are a 10.5-mile (17 km) chain of at least 27 volcanic domes, three large glass flows called coulees and various explosion pits and other associated volcanic features. The domes of the chain lie on a roughly north–south-trending arc that is concave to the west and located south of Mono Lake. The highest of the Mono Craters domes is Crater Mountain (elevation 9,172 feet or 2,796 m), which rises 2,400 feet (730 m) above Pumice Valley to the west. Multiple eruptions of silica-rich rhyolite from 40,000 to 600 years ago built the Mono Craters.
Source and more info: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mono%E2%80%93Inyo_Craters
Pronounced MOH-noh, this "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 nesting habitat for two million annual migratory birds that feed on the shrimp and blackflies (that also feed on the shrimp)." Source: wikipedia.org
Aux portes des terriers,
aux fenêtres des nids,
aux portes des jardins et des forêts.
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saisis sur le vif,
sans photos ni micro.
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que l'on n'a pas rêvé.
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Looks spooky but it is not ! Just wild cow parsley growing in the grass verge and it was on a sunny afternoon but somehow the P&S camera decided to capture the backgound a bit underexposed and with a couple of rounds of darkening the shadows this is the result !!
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Dead flat lake. Great reflections in early afternoon. Unfortunately the wind came up just before sunset which limited shots.
This is one of my last shots of the sun setting at Mono Lake on my recent trip. I kept hoping that we would get a little more color in the sky, but it didn't happen. The blue hour was upon us and it was starting to get pretty cold so this was when we called it quits for the night. The longer exposure really gave the reflections a nice look in the lake. Overall it was a pretty good shoot.
Heron on the Isle of Wight pond on Bookham Common on the lookout for any passing lunch . I once saw about twenty heron in flight over this pond ( see shot in first comment box ) , it was quite a sight but weather conditions prevented any sort of a decent capture . There is/was a heronry very close to the pond , but since some issues with water levels and a sluice being replaced I have not seen the herons in large numbers these days .