After a long midday drive from the bay area and waiting for moonrise at Mono Lake, Rob Y and I hurried to Hot Creek near Mammoth to grab a shot. We arrived around 1 am but the moon would not be directly overhead until 3:45-ish so we set the alarm to sneak in some much needed rest. Sleeping in the car when it is 23 deg F is not the most fun ever, but I guess it is slightly better than sleeping OUTSIDE.
The alarm dinged and we sprung awake and out the door to take our picture. By this time, morning twilight had begun and some overhead clouds were reflecting orange in the meandering creek.
We finished and raced down to Bishop for our next adventure...offroading through dry creek beds in the Chidago Canyon petroglyph area...in 100 degree heat!
Hot Creek flows down from Mammoth Lakes and becomes geothermally heated as it mixes with another source. These steam effusions are the result of the ambient temp being below freezing in this case(23 F) and the flowing creek water being much warmer or even hot. There are periodic geysers as well that shoot 6ft straight up. People are no longer permitted to swim here as there have been 14 deaths in recent years.
This is a vertical pano with the DFA 90mm 2.8 Macro lens on the 645Z. This is mostly straight from camera as it required little additional processing work.
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A vehicle emerges briefly from beneath the cold, dark fog on the southern slope of Mount Tamalpais.
Lens is the DFA 90mm f/2.8 Macro on the 645Z. Multi frame pano with 2 exposure manual blend.
There are a few favorite little views on this side of Mt. Tam, but they all seem to have power lines passing right though the scenes. Can you believe I had to edit out 3 such power lines passing right across this frame?
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Here's another angle from the winter sunset lineup at Pfeiffer Rock, Big Sur, this one from New Year's Day. I used the DFA 90mm/2.8 macro lens.
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Morning light at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C. This was a previously unprocessed pano from my trip in April.
Lens is the amazing D FA90mm f/2.4 Macro on the 645Z. This is a single-row pano. Here is a 100% crop to show the detail of the complete image: www.mikeoria.com/img/s12/v187/p2568333424.jpg
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Finishing off the night with a drop in at the tree tunnel just before midnight.
This is lit by three sources: the communications building flood lights(behind me) are spilling on to the closest few trees. The mottled ground is lit by overhead moonlight. And finally, as Miguel was leaving, he walked out slowly with his flashlight aimed upward to underlight the canopy all the way to the back. I think he did an amazing job! I combined two exposures in a median blend to reduce high ISO noise. Keep in mind, to the naked eye, very little of this scene was visible at all; it was mostly pitch dark.
Lens is the DFA 90mm f/2.8 macro on the 645Z. 2 exposures were 124 sec and 71 sec.
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