This is a continuation of iPhone photos shot in and around Alabama Hills, California in March 2024.
More later,
Ken
March 2024 iPhone Photos – Part 3
Category: Nature
Mono Lake, California – Part 1 (Republished to correct an image display problem on website)
My son and I ventured back north of Lone Pine, California to explore more natural sites along US Highway 395. Our first stop was Mono Lake.
I have seen photographs of the tufa in Mono Lake and looked forward to seeing these. While the history of this lake and the science behind the natural creation of the tufa deposits are interesting, we were a bit disappointed in the photogenic appeal of the area; but we were not there at the best time for photography, which might have been the primary reason for our disappointment.
We hiked the loop from the parking lot to the lake twice. I used my 24-70mm lens during the first round, then switched to my 80-400mm with a 1.4 extension for the second round. The photos included in my posts are a mix of images made with those two lenses.
More Mono Lake next time,
Ken
Alabama Hills, March 21, 2024 – Early Morning Photography
Early this morning we were at a location that we had previously scouted near some interesting pointy rocks for sunrise photography.
The first images here are pre-sunrise and a few minutes later the light is totally different.
These are the pointy rocks that look like guardians over the valley, standing at attention for the coming sunrise.
After shooting from behind these rock features, I began to wander around the area, looking for other photo possibilities, but you will have to come back again to see how that search turned out.
Until then,
Ken
Texas Wildflower Spring, April 2024, Part 2
This is a continuation of photography in my local area during the Texas spring wildflower season. I photographed handholding my camera with the usual Texas wind moving the flowers around. I tried to use a sufficiently high shutter speed to freeze the wind induced motion and my hand shake, shooting in burst mode, hoping to get useable images. This resulted in many images to sort through and many that I had to pass over. Even so, some of the images that I elected to process and present publicly, are not entirely satisfactory.
When I was a very young, my playmates and I smashed these “Buttercups” into each others noses, covering them with yellow pollen. It is fortunate, none of us had severe allergies.
More later,
Ken
Alabama Hills, California – Part 2 – Photographic Scouting
This is a continuation of our first morning in Alabama Hills, California.
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I began to realize early in this scouting outing that photographing the scenes here would be more challenging than I had anticipated. The scenery was spectacular, but the foreground tended to be so immense and dominant as to become a distraction for letting the eye get past it into the rest of the photo. And those mountains! The Sierra Nevada mountains were domineering as background, seemingly demanding to be included in every shot. As a result, I’m not overly pleased with many of my photos, even those that I choose to present here.
Fortunately, there were often cloudy days, so the sky was not bland.
The images in this post have embedded links that will take the reader to that image in my WordPress Image Library. The photo captions are links that will take the reader to that photo on my Flickr page.
To be continued,
Ken
Indiana Fall 2023, Part 27 – Abstract Images (Continued)
This is the second part of my post on abstract images of fall trees via ICM (intentional camera movement).
These two images (above and below) are the same but with different editing applied. These are not realistic natural images, so I’m not bothered by artistic renditions via edits.
The same scene can yield very different results, depending upon the camera movement.
I must admit that I had fun creating these abstracts. Maybe I should do this more often and I like the vertical motion abstracts of trees much more than those created via horizontal camera movement.
Until next time,
Ken
Indiana Fall 2023, Part 26 – Abstract Images
One day at the cabin, I went out into the area around the cabin to shoot some scenes that had caught my eye due to the lighting on another day. However, today the light was not the same and the shots of those previously interesting looking scenes were not interesting.
My stroll around the area eventually led me into a wooded area behind the cabin and I still was not getting any interesting images. So I decided to try getting abstract images via intentional camera movement (ICM), a technique that I seldom use.
Usually, the most interesting images can be obtained via vertical camera movement with trees as the subjects. But I did manage to get a few interesting images by panning the camera horizontally.
I think the monochrome version works best for this horizontal panning motion.
To be continued,
Ken
Indiana Fall 2023, Part 24 – Miscellaneous
Even on days when I did not venture out for photography, my wife and I often drove through scenic Brown County State Park on our way to or from some other destination.
Occasionally, we might stop at
an overlook and sometimes I took time to get a photo.
Ken
Indiana Fall 2023, Part 21 – Early One Foggy Morning, Brown County State Park
This is a continuation of a foggy morning shoot in Brown County State Park near Nashville, Indiana.
There were occasional breezes through the trees and I did not try to adjust my shutter speed to freeze the wind induced motion, so some of the images may show that motion, such as that in the image above.
To be continued,
Ken
Indiana Fall 2023, Part 23 – Early One Foggy Morning, Brown County State Park
I initially photographed along a roadway through Brown County State Park on a foggy morning, then took a long hike through the forest. Photos in this post and a number in the previous post (part 22) were taken along that forest hiking trail.
The fog was getting thinner now and it became more difficult to capture the fog in my images. I elected to stop photographing as it was getting late in the morning and I was getting hungry for breakfast and caffeine. I’m sure the hiking trail was not of great length, but it seemed like it took me a considerable time to get back to a a roadway. Then I had to hike a considerable distance along a roadway to return to my vehicle.
Until next time,
Ken