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Macro Mondays, theme: Puzzle.
Hanayama cast metal "Möbius" puzzle, from Japan. The aim is to separate the disk from the Möbius ring, which is not very easy.
Hasselblad/Zeiss Makro-Planar 135mm-f/5.6 manual lens, set to f/5.6.
7 image focus stack using a macro rail and Helicon Focus.
At ISO 6400 the sky can look amazing (and noisy). This is the Mobius Arch in Lone Pine California within the Alabama Hills at the base of Mt. Whitney
"Mobius Arch"
This arch is tucked away in the Alabama Hills of California. Many a Western movie was made in these parts. I scrambled in and around a few boulders to get to this vantage point to connect the arch with the Sierra Mountain Range. I wasn't sure I would make it to this area or not as many parts of California had been under significant snowfall. Hope you enjoy.
I'd seen pictures of this arch in the Alabama Hills east of the Sierra Nevada range, but didn't know where it was. Fortunately someone built a marked trail to it since I had last visited the area and it was only a short walk from the road. This angle shows Lone Pine Peak in the distance.
Mobius Arch is located on Movie Flat Road in the heart of the Alabama Hills. There is a small, easy to miss trailhead sign that you can follow for the half-mile to the arch. hiking Mobius Arch Loop Trail was nice. Seeing the arch from this angle is a beautiful view, but if you proceed around to the other side, you can perfectly frame Mt Whitney in the center of the Arch window. The arch window is about six and a half feet high. The sun light was strong. I was a bit regret missing sunset, and sunrise in this amazing place.
Canon EOS R5, EF24-70mm f/2.8L II USM
ISO100, f/16, 41mm, 1/100s
Explored January 24, 2023
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And once again it's one of the last photos, taken today... I should start earlier in the week to at least think about what I could do for a theme. This time, a leftover piece of sew-on reflective tape came to my rescue. I taped it together to make a Möbius strip. I originally wanted to do something with very thin (only 3 mm / 0,11 inches wide) double-sided adhesive tape that one can use in scale modelling or watch modding or other small-sized DIY projects, but it looked dull. Then I thought I'd use regular clear adhesive tape, but...let's say: Hats off to anyone who has actually used clear adhesive tape for the theme. I found it impossible to present it in a nice-looking way, especially since my "photo studio" aka living room table isn't exactly a cleanroom ;) I already wanted to skip when I remembered my box full of tapes and other stuff which I'm using for makings bags and such, and since I always use reflective material on any bag I make, I also had some reflective tape in that box. Which made my Monday :)
Width of the Möbius strip: 3,5 cm / 1,377 inches; it's a single, handheld shot which I've illuminated with my makeshift colour filters (blue tealight holder on LED lamp from the left, another LED light shone through a green bottle from the right, and a small LED flashlight set on "spotlight" placed in front of the strip. Processed mainly in DXO (the basics such as sharpness and noise reduction) and LR (where I added some "colour oomph" with the primary sliders). And yes, I focused on the lint ;)
HMM, Everyone!
One thing many of us have in common is appreciating the differences in the sky throughout the day. It’s natural to appreciate changes in nature, watching processes take place with effortless ease. You might actively enjoy sky-gazing or just love when you catch those moments of changes in the sky. Regardless, most people love watching the colors ignite and fade.
This is a sunset view of Mobius Arch in the Alabama Hills below the Sierra Nevada Mountains in northern California.
Mobius Arch is the most famous arch in the Alabama Hills where there are dozens of them. Unfortunately our stay in Lone Pine did not correspond to the most auspicious time to photograph the Milky Way. We had too much bright moon. So I had to make do with another Milky Way I had on hand.
Happy Slider Sunday!
Looking East towards Alabama Hills and Death Valley National Park mountains in the far rear.
3 exposure HDR.
Thank you very much for your kind comments and faves.
Using the 28mm F1.8 Prime proved to be challenging. I finally figured out a focus stack was the only solution
Competition for shooting at Mobius Arch is fierce. But, shooting it from the "backside" enabled a sun star. The shape of the arch looks totally different from this side.
While staying in Death Valley we went on a road trip to Lone Pine and the Alabama Hills. A gorgeous area to which we definitely want to return. This is the famed Mobius Arch in the afternoon. There were so many people here I had to wait awhile to get a shot without people.
The classic sunrise view of Mobius Arch in the Alabama Hills with the Sierra Nevada Mountains lit up by the morning sun.
Lori Hibbett (www.flickr.com/photos/lorihibbett/) photographs Mobius Arch in California's Eastern Sierra. What a treat to have this spot to ourselves, before dawn on this frosty December morning!
Several of the Alabama Hills' 100+ arches are covered on pages 91-94 in my guidebook, "Photographing California Vol. 2 - South". I've bought the remaining stock from my publisher, so contact me to buy a copy!
Lori was with me from the beginning as I started researching, writing and illustrating locations for the book back in 2010, so it was fitting that the was with me again as I came full circle back to this spot.
The Möbius-Loop
M.C. Escher (artist and mathematician) enjoyed working with it.
The infinite journey of consciousness (some call it Soul, others call it Spirit) through understanding,healing and learning is coherent .
LA airport was so crowd, almost no people wore masks; Traffic was crazy as always. After renting the car, headed to Lone Pine. It was supposed to drive 3 hr 21 min from Los Angeles International Airport to Lone Pine, but it took more than 6 hours getting there due to traffic. Missed sunset at Mobius Arch, too late to check the sunrise location for next day.
Woke up around 4:30am, drove in the dark to Lone Pine. Thanks google, did not navigate to river… When arriving to Movie Road, there was a car in front of us. We stopped at the same time; 4 local senior photographers were off the car. I asked them where the best location was to capture sunrise, one guy joked with me, it is worth $6k to tell me the secret 😉
After taking sunrise photos along Movie Road, headed to Mobius Arch, hiking Mobius Arch Loop Trail was nice. The sun light was strong. I was a bit regret missing sunset, and sunrise in this amazing place. Always leaving some regrets to next time 😊
Canon EOS R5, EF24-70mm f/2.8L II USM
ISO100, f/16, 33mm, 1/60s
Alabama Hills,
Inyo Co., California
Thanks to Tom of Redlands, who I happened on to mid-shoot. He was generous enough to allow me to shoot while he remotely lit the arch from the back side. Turns out I was fairly unprepared and would have been lost without him.
The now famous Mobius Arch from the movie land area of the Alabama Hills facing away from Mt. Whitney.
Macro Mondays, theme: Dangle
Hanayama cast metal "Möbius" puzzle, from Japan. The aim is to separate the disk from the Möbius ring, which is not very easy.
Laowa 100mm f/2.8 CA-Dreamer Macro 2X lens, set to f/2.8.
For an image with scale, see here:
The famous Mobius Arch in the Alabama Hills at sunset. The clouds were not very cooperative but the mountains glowed.
There were three of us with tripods shooting the Mobius. A couple groups of tourists came by and shot the arch from below. The exception was a couple who climbed up and posed extensively for their phone on a tripod. They didn't even give the rest of us a glance. See them in the comment below. They provide scale if you are not familiar with the size of this arch.
Wilbur shooting the Mobius Arch in the Alabama Hills, an area filled with eroded granite formations below the Sierra Nevada Mountains.
The Alabama Hills were named by prospectors sympathetic to the Confederate cause. They named their mining claims after a warship named the CSS Alabama which sank over 50 Union ships.