This is the final part of exploring Alabama Hills, California and capturing scouting photos with a phone camera.
The rock on the right reminds me of a turtle stretching its neck out to bask in sunlight.
Sky Pointers 2 is a view from behind Sky Pointers.
The rock on the left seems especially in awe of the sky.
I promise to move on to photos from other areas in upcoming posts,
Ken
More iPhone scouting photos from Alabama Hills, California, March 2024.
Until next time,
Ken
More scouting photos in Alabama Hills, California, March 2024.
Ok, this vandalized arch is called “Surprise Arch” (I think), but it looks more like the Pillsbury Doughboy.
I’ll have more iPhone images in the next post, but from an area well outside of Alabama Hills, so stay tuned,
Ken
And even more iPhone scouting photos in Alabama Hills, California.
This monochrome version of an iPhone photo was chosen for Flickr’s Explore page July 25, 2024. The bright white clouds behind the arch draws the eye to the arch. Against a clear, bland sky, a photo of this arch would be much less interesting, maybe even boring.
I called this natural rock feature “The Head”, because it looks like a head on a neck looking across the broad valley into the Sierra Nevada Mountains, maybe thinking it would be cooler to be in those mountains, under a blanket of snow, rather than stuck down here forever.
The arch on top of the weathered, massive rock outcrop is called The Eye of Alabama Hills.
From this view point, The Eye feature reminds me of a big eyed puppy draped over its owner’s body, peering into its master’s eyes.
Thanks for following my posts,
Ken
More iPhone scouting photos of Alabama Hills, California.
Until next time,
Ken
This is a continuation of iPhone photos shot in and around Alabama Hills, California in March 2024.
More later,
Ken
More iPhone and scouting photos from my March 2024 travels.
To be continued,
Ken
After our early morning sunrise shoot, my son and I went on another short scouting expedition.
Of course, I made a few shots during our little hike, scouting the area for possible sunrise or sunset shoots, but the two in this post are the only ones that I deemed presentable.
Until next time,
Ken
After shooting at my preferred location this morning, I wandered around the area looking for other scenes to shoot.
I don’t think the many dirt, back roads here have names, but the early morning quiet led me to call this one Serenity Road.
Shooting from another point of view, I thought it would make no difference which way one turned at the T, as either way would let one see more of the awesome geology of this area.
Standing in the shadow of the massive rocks behind me, I watched as the early morning sun began to highlight the top of the rock features in front of me.
I wandered back through and over rocks and boulders to the place of my initial shots this morning. I climbed onto a massive rock and made one last image, wrapping up this sunrise shoot.
Until next time,
Ken
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
