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Easily the most famous arch in California’s Alabama Hills, Mobius Arch is frozen with an icing of snow on this November morning after a winter storm transformed the landscape into a snowy wonderland.
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.
A light painted Mobius Arch (Alabama Hills), with the Milky Way over the Eastern Sierras. I will be conducting a NightScape workshop here in April 2014. Although the winter Milky Way is not as bright and dramatic as the summer MW, it does align better with the arch and the Sierras :)
Technique: This is a single exposure (20 seconds) taken with a Rokinon 14mm f/2.8 lens @ f/2.8 on a Canon 5D Mark III camera. The arch was lighted with two stationary battery-powered lights behind and inside the arch, and one moving spotlight from the front.
If you'd like to learn how to do starry night photography like this, check out my blog post, How to Photography Milky Way NightScapes.
Exploring the Alabama Hills: I just returned from a week-long scouting trip in the Alabama Hills of Eastern California, where I will be conducting a starry "NightScape" workshop in April 2014 (we will also be doing a lot of daytime photography).
My new ebook, Milky Way NightScapes, gives extensive details on my style of starry night landscape photography. Four chapters cover planning, scouting, forecasting star/landscape alignment, light painting, shooting techniques and post processing.
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Alabama Hills, Eastern Sierra, California
A view through the Mobius Arch with Mt Whitney glowing in the morning light from a gap in the clouds. Lone Pine Peak is on the left.
The arch's name was given by someone with a bit of mathematical background who thought it looked like a Mobius strip.
You can construct an example of a Mobius strip from a band of paper, giving it a half-twist, then taping the ends together. Take a pencil and trace a line along its surface without lifting the pencil and you'll discover it has just one surface. Tracing the edge in a similar fashion demonstrates that it also has only one edge.
Viewed from the proper angle, there does indeed seem to be a half-twist in the granite arch, but I wouldn't recommend the pencil tracing exercise on the granite.
3D Geometry made with a ZCorp 510 color printer. Macromondays theme: "Mesh". As usual SOOC. (Raw to Jpg conversion with IrfanView).
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The usual angle on Mobius Arch is looking straight through to the mountain in the keyhole. I found this angle more interesting as the rock in front looks like some kind of creature with a big eyeball and a long snout. Maybe the clouds give it some crazy hair too.
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Une borne extra-terrestre posée au milieu de la lande. Elle n’a qu’une face.
Festival Godiv’Art 2017, Sculpture : Signe d’horizons, Hervé Dominique Corneille.
Photo : Le Sténopé Républicain 2017.
View of Mt. Whitney through the Arch in the Alabama Hills Recreation Area, Lone Pine, CA. I was there early enough to avoid the crowds who usually take pictures while climbing through the Arch. A truly memorable view...without the crowds.
A Hawaiian stilt (Himantopus mexicanus knudseni), or ae’o, wades through the reflective brackish water of Kealia Pond. This endangered species prefers an optimal water depth of about 5 inches to hunt for fish and other aquatic organisms. The reflection visually reminds me of a Mobius strip.
The Mobius Arch is located in the Alabama Hills in California. The shot is a combination of 59 individual photos. Exposure on each was 30 seconds, ISO 3200, f2.8. By combing many shorter exposures the resulting image quality is better than taking one long 30 minute exposure. One long exposure will result in higher digital noise thereby degrading the image. It is also harder to control supplemental lighting in one long exposure.
I had the good fortune to meet the excellent professional photographer, Eric Zumstein, who happened to be photographing the arch that night also. He's on Flickr and Instagram. His Flickr account is: www.flickr.com/photos/7186423@N05
I planned for visiting Eastern Sierra during Thanks Giving long weekend (2008). Weather forecast seemed to be pretty bad, so instead of canceling the plan, I decided to make the trip on weekend just before the Thanks Giving.
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Location - Mobius Arch, Alabama Hills, Near Lone Pine, California
Mobius Arch is along the Arch Loop Trail in Alabama Hills CA. Not many people around during the hot hours of the day. But just before sunset, the parking area filled, and many people flocked to the Mobius Arch for a photo op.
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A small tribute to the rover "curiosity" having successfully landed on our nearby red planet.
This image was attained by shooting under a full moon (star burst at the top) and light painting the arch.
The peace and quiet that is part of the Alabama Hills is out of this world. There were long stretches where I was in complete and utter silence as I looked for new angles to shoot this from.
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While waiting for the night to fall and the moon to set, in order to get some Milky Way shots with the famous Mobius Arch, I had enough time to scout the area and to enjoy a great sunset.
Of course I just had to capture the scene with my camera.
I spend so much time chasing dramatic clouds but there is something nice about a clear sky and some nice light.
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I have visited Mobius Arch before and posted one, two, three photos of it, all from the same angle. This time I wanted to try something a little different, and towards sunset, not sunrise. Inspired by several great landscape photographers here on Flickr, I’ve been experimenting with shooting vertical, and shooting with a full frame camera at 18mm sure helps get more into the picture. So, this is my newest version of Mobius Arch, sometimes called Galen Arch, since it was Galen Rowell whose photo first made it famous.
There are 205 photos on Flickr tagged with “mobius arch” and 55 tagged with “galen arch” and none of them have been shot from this location and angle. Most of them are in landscape mode and use the mountains behind them. It makes me a bit happy to know that even the most famous places on earth still can be interpreted creatively and new.
There is now a path to the arch from the parking area with signs of exactly where to walk. This wasn’t the case 2 years ago when you had to figure it out. As long as the people maintain it, I’m all for it.
But this isn’t what is on my mind right now. Doing my laundry in the garage late last night I heard something above me in the rafters. Scratching. In the previous few days I’ve noticed a few of the things in the garage either fallen on the floor, moved, or otherwise disturbed. But the door is always locked, so perhaps the beams holding the garage together are weak and collapsing. A quick turn to my garage door opener proved me wrong (see below). A possum or opossum. Whatever you want to call it, they’re large garbage rats. Now this one is cute and furry, but it’s a baby. And where there are possum babies, there are more kids and parents. Looks like they’ve taken shelter in our Christmas decorations, and as much as I love most animals, possums and raccoons are the exception. They’re not paying rent, so they gots to go! Here is the video of me following this lil guy. Don’t mine the commentary.
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Proof of the Nonlocality of a Light Cone’s Surface:
Consider a pair of entangled photons which travel in opposite directions from the origin in the x1, x2 plane.
No matter how far apart they travel, they will remain entangled, meaning that their two positions will define a nonlocality.
Now consider numerous entangled pairs of photons, wherein the two photons in each pair travel away from the origin in opposite directions.
Together, the positions of the photons in all the entangled pairs of photons will by and by define a circle of nonlocality as the number of pairs of photons approaches infinity.
Now consider a third axis which is time. Together, the positions of the photons in all the entangled pairs of photons will define a conical surface of nonlocality.
Ergo, the surface of a light cone is a nonlocality.
The surface of a light cone is thus nonlocal.
QED
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The night was a warm 85 degrees in the Alabama Hills, and Coyotes were coming towards Miguel and I, howling all the while… I got to test out my bear whistle. It worked.
I tried a different view… will return after my new camera arrives (D7000) and see about making star trail circles.
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