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There are landmarks every landscape photographer wants to shoot, and Mobius Arch is one of them. The arch simply looks gorgeous with the ragged peaks of the Eastern Sierra in the backdrop.
A quick online search will reveal that most Milky Way nightscapes from Mobius Arch are captured from a lower and more westerly position than the famous daylight or sunrise shots. From this perspective, the arch still looks nice, but the view of the mountains is blocked by the surrounding rocks, making the composition less impressive. Unfortunately, the Milky Way core doesn't align with the Sierras behind the arch.
I shot Mobius Arch in this composition during previous visits but wasn't impressed by the results. That's why I tried to do things differently during my last visit in April 2022.
For this image, I captured Mobius Arch from its back side. From this position, the Milky Way bow perfectly aligns with the completely different but still nice-looking arch.
To my surprise, I haven't been able to find any images of Mobius Arch from this side, even though I was convinced that it has been shot from every possible angle thousands of times. If I really found a new perspective of this famous place, I entitle myself to give it a new, secondary name. For obvious reasons, I call it 'Sisyphus Arch'.
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Canon EOS R, astro-modified
Sigma 28mm ART f/1.4 @ f/2
IDAS NBZ filter
iOptron SkyTracker Pro
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Panorama of 8 panels, each a stack of 8x 45s @ ISO1600, unfiltered & 3x 105s @ ISO6400, filtered
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Focus stacked panorama of 10 panels, each a stack of 5x 5s @ISO100, f/5.6 during twilight
Mobius Arch in the Alabama Hills is one the many interesting places located in the Owen River Valley just east of Mt. Whitney and the High Sierras. The location, just a few miles west of Lone Pine, CA, was home to hundreds of old Hollywood western movies over the past 50 years. What makes it so interesting for photography are the massive boulders scattered throughout the area, the countless rock formations, and the rolling hills all at the base of the Sierra Mountains. The 15ft. natural arch, which is an easy 200yd. hike from Movie Road, provides a unique window view of the majestic Sierras in the background.
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Sunrise at Mobius Arch. This is one of the two pilgrimage shots for photographers, the other being a shot of Mount Whitney through the loop, looking in the other direction.
It's a pain to get to this vantage point that's about 20 feet above ground level, especially with a heavy camera + heavy lens + tripod. The climbing is hard, thanks to the extremely rough surface of these rocks that can cause very painful abrasions or rip your clothing if you're not careful.
Alabama Hills, Lone Pine, California
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Alabama Hills, Inyo Co., CA
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"The edge of the wind is always against the stone."--John C. Van Dyke (1856-1932), in The Desert
The Mobius Arch is located in the Alabama Hills of California at the base of Mount Whitney. Mount Whitney is the tallest mountain in the continental United States. The Mobius Arch has an inner diameter (ID) of approximately 2 meters.
It was 3:00am as I walked out to the camera that I'd left in the desert on a tripod connected to my programmed intervalometer to check on the second star trail exposure series of the night.
I was aware the moon had risen during the exposures, and sure enough, it had pretty much ruined the 14 5 minute exposures, which had all been bleached out too much to work with. But the moon… it was absolutely incredible the way it illuminated the stone formations in the desert out there. The best part of all was the way it lit up the Sierra Nevada under the night sky filled with the Milky Way and billions of stars. So I knew I had to make the best of the situation and immediately set up to make some Milky Way photographs with this beautiful arch framing Mount Whitney and Lone Pine Peak under the moonlight.
I set up the camera, dialed in the settings, and pressed the shutter release on the remote. About 20 seconds later, a very bright meteor zipped across the sky, right in front of the Milky Way, and disappeared as quickly as it had appeared. 10 seconds later, the shutter clicked closed, and I knew I had the shot. When this image popped up on the review screen, I just packed up the camera and went back to the car.
Mobius Arch in the Alabama Hills is one the many interesting places located in the Owen River Valley just east of Mt. Whitney and the High Sierras. The location, just a few miles west of Lone Pine, CA, was home to hundreds of old Hollywood western movies over the past 50 years. What makes it so interesting for photography are the massive boulders scattered throughout the area, the countless rock formations, and the rolling hills all at the base of the Sierra Mountains. The 15ft. natural arch, which is an easy 200yd. hike from Movie Road, provides a unique window view of the majestic Sierras in the background.
Inside, outside. Outside, inside. It all rolls into one. That's one of the qualities that I love about Calatrava's work. The connection appears seamless.
More from the JiBBR trip to Rotterdam during which Rita, Jorg and I headed off on a day trip to see Calatrava's wonderful Liège-Guillemins train station.
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A Möbius Strip also known as a Möbius Band is a geometric figure with only one surface and one edge. It is created by putting a half twist in a circle of paper. If an ant were to crawl along the length of this strip, it would return to its starting point having traversed the entire length of the strip (on both sides of the original paper) without ever crossing an edge. For the Macro Mondays group. Topic: Twist HMM!
A 6 shot 3 row panorama of the Mobius Arch in Alabama Hills CA.
I also took some 2 row vertical panoramas. But the horizontal 3 rows came out better. A LED lantern was used to light the arch during the long exposures.
Nikon D7200 and 20mm lens. F/2, 2000 ISO, and 20 seconds at 20mm, I call it the Duce.
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And if you prefer your arch without the flashlight wielding intruder, here you go.
Lens is the D FA35mm f/3.5 on the 645Z.
This is the classic photo that most photographers try for when they visit Mobius Arch in the Alabama Hills. There are lots of great variations that may be more creative, but for me this is the most beautiful view. Where are the Alabama Hills? California, of course. When we first visited this arch in 2001 with its view of the Sierra Nevada mountains it took us a while to find its unpublicized location. But when we returned a few years later there were signs and a regular trail, so I hope it survives the added attention. This was scanned from a slide to create a digital image.
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Just going through some old photos and kind of was digging the glow on the mountains (Whitney?~I honestly can't remember...) but anyway, HAPPY EFFIN MONDAY!
If you are not a mathematician, you are unlikely to know of a gentleman named August Ferdinand Möbius, who was a professor of Mathematics and Astronomy at the University of Leipzig. Despite being outlandishly talented, the good professor didn’t exactly blaze through academic ranks because he was unable to attract paying students to take his class and would advertise his lectures as ‘free’ to get adequate enrollment. However, the absentminded professor considered mathematics to be poetic, and ended up defining and lending his name to one of the most enigmatic two-dimensional structures: the Möbius band (or, Möbius strip).
Yes, all of us have seen a Möbius band: the recycling sign on plastic or the infinity sign are great examples of Möbius band. To make a Möbius strip of your own, find yourself a rectangular strip of paper and glue both ends of the strip together after half-twisting the paper (by 180 degrees). Many things are extremely remarkable about this structure. Most uniquely, this two-dimensional structure has one surface. Don’t believe? Find yourself a ink pen and mark your initials anywhere on the surface. Now, with your finger tip, travel away from your initials along the central line of the strip surface. Keep going without lifting your finger from the paper. When you will have traveled the whole strip twice, you will find your fingers back on your initials –– convinced, that’s only one surface?
This 'one surface' property leads to another unintuitive – almost tantalizing – nature of this unique structure where the laterally inverted (mirror image) form of any physical point exists on the same surface! In a regular piece of paper, your initials and its mirror image (bleed-through the paper) would be on two different surfaces; To travel between them, you will have to switch surfaces. But in your personal paper Möbius strip, it is now possible to start from your initials, and without altering surfaces, reach their bleed-through mirror image, which is apparently on the other side of the surface from your initials! Also, one could keep walking on the only surface of the strip forever without ever needing to turn around – if you didn’t already, now you know why the infinity sign looks as it does!
Finally, the most unintuitive signature of Mobius structures is that they are unorientable. What’s that, right? Points on orientable things, like a ball or a bat, can be ‘inward’ and ‘outward’ or ‘upward’ and ‘downward’. No matter how you rotate the ball, an ‘outward’ point will always remain outward. But on a Möbius band, a point can slide from an ‘outward’ to an ‘inward’ orientation by rotating the strip. Simply put, the Möbius band has no ‘sidedness’. Here, every point and its mirror-image have collapsed on the same surface. It is as if, all dichotomies have disappeared and dimensions have warped-up somewhere!
Do Möbius bands exist in nature? Yes, they do. Despite the illusory visual of being so, the famous namesake arch in Alabama hills, CA is geometrically not a Möbius band. But, non-fictitious Möbius bands exist in nature elsewhere. Crystals of certain chemical compounds (e.g., niobium and selenium, NbSe3) display Möbius structures. In quantum physics, waveforms for fermions (not bosons) curiously reminds one of the Möbius pattern. Now, imagine how nice would it be if we had Möbius roller coasters or freeways in our perceivable world? We could then hop on them to simultaneously be ourselves and our mirror image – our alter ago – thereby drawing a closure to all our dichotomies. Wouldn’t it be nice if that happened?
Let me close with a crazy thought. What if, Möbius bands come into existence somewhere in those ten dimensions (M-theory) around us somewhen during magical times of the day, but due to limitations of our perceptual faculties, we are unable to acknowledge their presence?
This is an image of the famous Mobius Arch in the Alabama Hills near Lone Pine, CA. The moon was not in the photo when I opened the shutter but crept into the frame during this long exposure. I could have removed it in Photoshop but decided that having it there makes this look like a comet streaking into this surreal scene.
After visiting Ancient Bristlecone Forest in the afternoon, I was a bit frustrated that I did not have enough time to do night photography there. What a great place it would have been!
But I had to decide between Bristlecone and the Alabama Hills and went for the more conveniently located Mobius Arch in the Alabamas. After a "scouting mission" late in the afternoon, I arrived at the parking shortly before sunset. There were two other cars parked there. While I unloaded my equipment, I was approached by the guy parked next to me and asked if I would do astrophotography at "the arch". As I told him yes, he seemed pretty unhappy and said that he hoped we wouldn't disturb each other and that it would not get too crowded. I just smiled and said I was sure we would find a way to get our desired shots and started the short walk to the arch. After a few steps a British couple asked me for directions and I invited them to join me for the short hike.
While walking, we started discussing photography and the guy told me he wanted to try Milky Way photography for a while. I told him this was one of the best places to start this great hobby and that his camera was more than adequate (actually better than mine). After further discussing the topic, while setting up my equipment and after showing him some of my RAWs I took at Mono Lake, he was finally hooked. He told me he would go for a short dinner and be back to see a pro at work and maybe learn a few tricks.
This really made me lough out loud. I told him that he was welcome to join me but that I was no pro by far, that I started Milky Way photography only a few month ago and that all I know about the topic comes from Royce Bairs e-Book "Milky Way Nightscapes": intothenightphoto.blogspot.ch/
After the couple left for dinner I continued to setup my equipment and lights and did some test shots.
This is one of the first captures I took, shortly after moonset, while I was still alone at the arch. The flash on the left is a meteor that I chanced to capture in the same frame. Obviously a sign of good luck for the rest of the evening.
Canon 7D mk ll on a fixed tripod
Single exposure 25 sec @ ISO3200
Samyang 10mm f/2.8 ED
A small Anasazi Granary built under one hell of a cool looking rock. I light painted it it and put a lantern in the granary (very carefully as to not disturb anything) and spun the stars for 30 minutes. Would like to have captured longer star trails but the clouds moved in. This is the third time this location has tried to skunk me!
Light painting experiments at Mobius Arch, with Mt. Whitney in the distance, Alabama Hills, California, USA, before sunrise. The trail is well marked nowadays, I was able to find the way in total darkness with a headlight. I used a more powerful LED flashlight on the arch.
Speedlite with dome diffuser on inside of 16" white BD, sock on, 45 degree angle above CR, reflector below. Pocket wizard triggers.
Alabama Hills from back in August of this year. We passed through Death Valley on the way and it was 116 degrees. We gladly kept on moving.
This was the grand finale of my delightful string of beautiful sunrises and sets that I was treated to while out in Death Valley. Obviously, this isn't Death Valley though. I took a side trip over to Lone Pine, CA for an overnighter. Lone Pine is just outside the Alabama Hills Recreation Area in the Eastern Sierras. Mobius Arch is a fantastically shaped and textured arch found there and is the iconic highlight of the area. It is perfectly situated to frame some of the high peaks of the Sierras...most notably Lone Pine Peak (pictured) and Mt. Whitney (the highest peak in the lower 48). It was an absolutely fantastic morning that I'll remember for a long time.