AGeoJO wrote:
I made it back last night from the Eastern Sierras. One of the target locations is Mono Lake. Here is the first image from there when the low setting sun hit the tufa there. This is about the lowest sun rays since the high Sierra Nevada to the East is blocking the sun.
The number of wonderful images posted while I was away is simply staggering. Kudos to everyone!
Photo taken October 19, 2015 about 29 minutes after sunrise, Big Meadows, Shenandoah NP, Virginia. Image taken with my tripod mounted A7r and my Leica M 90mm f2.5 Summarit lens, ISO 100, lens set to f11 for 1/30 second. Exposure corrected by + 0.24 Stops and processed in LR6.
As usual, these pages are a delight to study. These shots are taken at Deception Falls in Washington State. The snow melt in the Cascade Mountains is so rapid that the waterways are running at an unbelievable pace. The first shot was taken with the A7RII and the Tamron SP 35/1.8 at 1/125th of a second which was not fast enough to stop the action of the water completely. If I had used an ND filter or the Sony App, it would have looked like a snow storm. The first shot is upstream and the other shots are downstream with the Leica WATE at 16mm.
Received a Mutar II yesterday. As a coincidence I discovered new neighbors across the street. Conveniently visible from the living room. Usually they hide behind a chimney, but sometimes they all come out
Thank you, Ronny! Your macro images are truly outstanding. Still, what is mind boggling is that you could get close to those bugs without scaring them away. You are a serious critter whisperer.
puckman wrote:
Beautiful. I can't wait to head out there soon.
Thank you, Nadim! I got quite lucky with respect the cloud formation during sunset/sunrise but the clouds became thick in the evening and skipped doing astro this time around. Oh, well . BTW, the Batis 18mm is really a superb performer. Those shots you took with it are excellent.
Here are two more shots from Mono Lake, both captured with the Batis 18mm after the sun had disappeared behind the Sierra Nevada on the first day. The first facing east and the second facing west-northwest
Speaking of Ronny Olson, a big thanks to him for his beautiful images of Vestrahorn; without them we wouldn't have known to swing by...and swing we did, with only 45 min's to get something. So we paid the 'owner' of this mountain, then drove off to what looked like the classic shot. While there shot in several different locations but this is the classic vantage point I think-
Thank you sir, but I'll be the first to admit my work is in no way even in the ballpark of Ronny...I'm good with that Just glad we could have actually visited that area.
. BTW, the Batis 18mm is really a superb performer. Those shots you took with it are excellent.
