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Located in California's spectacular Eastern Sierra, Mono Lake is an oasis in the dry Great Basin and a vital habitat for millions of migratory and nesting birds.
The unusual rock formations that grace Mono Lake's shores are known to geologists as tufa. Tufa forms in a variety of ways at Mono Lake, but the most visible and remarkable formations are the towers that grace Mono's shoreline.
This is from my BTEC Foundation Diploma in Art and Design, it shows my developments in mono printing and how they are made.
Strobist info: sb-24 through shoot-through umbrella camera left and SB-27 into reflective silver umbrella camera right
Mono - Monodactylus argenteus (Linnaeus, 1758) [more of this species]
Date: November 6, 2010
Location: Brighton Aquarium [more at this location]
Country: United Kingdom
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Mono Lake is a large, shallow saline lake in Mono County, California, The lack of an outlet causes high levels of salts to accumulate in the 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.
Mono Lake is 3 times more salty than the sea. Living in it are mostly algae and brine shrimp. Nothing else survives there. On land life alkaline flies that lay eggs that hatch into larvae in the lake. The around 200 indians living before 'we' arrived here ate the flies' pupae, pine nuts and rabbits. The miners from Europe cut down the trees and settled next to the fresh water springs making the natural life impossible.