Thanks guys. It was weird and yet fun at the same time photographing without using a tripod with the Olympus system.
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#861
Posted 23 January 2020 - 02:04 AM
Patrick
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#862
Posted 23 January 2020 - 03:10 AM
Tufa and Mono Lake with snow is so special, as are your photographs!
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#863
Posted 24 January 2020 - 01:17 AM
Wow! Those are absolutely stunning stunning!
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#864
Posted 24 January 2020 - 02:22 AM
Thanks Ski & Cayuse for the kind words!
These sand tufa (TOO-fah) are limestone formed when freshwater springs flow up through Mono Lake's carbonate-rich water. This is my favorite formation - so delicate. Mono Lake is about 35 feet lower than it was when Los Angeles began diverting all the inflow streams, which is why these tufa are no longer underwater. The city is now required to leave minimum flows in those streams.
Patrick
2015 FWC Hawk Flatbed
#865
Posted 24 January 2020 - 03:06 AM
We were able to take the Olympus M1X and the 12-100mm lens to Mono Lake California to try it out.
Mono Lake tufa formations after the storm. After Thursday's snowstorm Jan. 17, we got up at 5 a.m. Friday and drove several hours on icy roads (all the way) to see Mono Lake in the snow. The access road is 5 miles in from U.S. Hwy. 395 and it is plowed only part way, so if you go after a bigger storm, you will need skis or snowshoes. Unlike the summer months when it is mobbed, we did not see another person viewing the tufa! Though we were there later in the morning not at early light, it was nice to see snow on the Tufa.
The area has also sand tufa that used to be underwater when the lake was higher, but are now far from the lake shore; the largest ones can be approximately 3 feet tall. For those unfamiliar with the area, the mountains in the background are the Sierra peaks on the northwest edge of Yosemite National Park.
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Beautiful photos!
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#866
Posted 13 February 2020 - 01:37 AM
Being alive is not the same as living. Just being alive is not enough.
#867
Posted 13 February 2020 - 03:06 AM
I like too!
Patrick
2015 FWC Hawk Flatbed
#868
Posted 13 February 2020 - 03:32 AM
I like too!
Me too!
The location of the second photo looks familiar.
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#869
Posted 13 February 2020 - 05:20 PM
As it does for me.
Patrick
2015 FWC Hawk Flatbed
#870
Posted 14 February 2020 - 05:38 AM
That is Bow Mountain viewed from Elbow Lake in the Wind River Range.
Lots of nice photos on here, enjoying wading thru them all.
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