Mono Morning

[JimFox]

A recent sunrise at Mono Lake in the Eastern Sierra in California. As the sun was rising above the horizon and burning through some clouds I like how these tufa's framed it.

All comments are welcome,

Jim

 

[Ben Egbert]

Nice one Jim. I was only there for photos once and never had time to figure it out. I need to return to the eastern Seirras at least one more time.

 

[AlanLichty]

This worked quite well. Nice cloud layers and colors.

Like Ben I have only been there once and the water was much lower than what you show here. I didn't walk away with many useful shots.

 

[Timmeh]

Hey Jim,

The tower placement in this is excellent, and the sun's location is perfect. This is a great example of how centering can work really well under certain circumstances.

I was just out there, and the water level was much higher than I remembered last year. I guess heavy precipitation doesn't show itself until the following year at Mono.

Tim

 

[JimFox]

Nice one Jim. I was only there for photos once and never had time to figure it out. I need to return to the eastern Seirras at least one more time.

This worked quite well. Nice cloud layers and colors.

Like Ben I have only been there once and the water was much lower than what you show here. I didn't walk away with many useful shots.

Thanks you guys!

Water has slowly been rising. But the biggest key to getting good shots at Mono Lake is just making sure you are at the right area on Mono Lake. There are tufa's scattered all around it, but there is really only 1 or 2 main area's where the tufa's really stand out. Most of the other area's the tufa's are crumbled and much smaller, and not very photogenic.

You both should get back down here again. Alan, you almost made it until winter storms blocked your path.

 

[lionking]

Cool image Jim.
Love the light and framing.

 

[Jim Dockery]

Nice composition. Agree with Tim on the centering and tufa placements.

 

[Jameel Hyder]

Nice one Jim. The sky is really nice and the elements all come together. I shot a similar composition but the sky wasn't anywhere near this good.

 

[Jeffrey]

Great timing and framing, Jim. That's a lot of formations in one image! To me the foreground is too bright for the little light tat that early sun would provide.

 

[Douglas Sherman]

I love the tones in this one, Jim.

 

[Alisa]

A recent sunrise at Mono Lake in the Eastern Sierra in California. As the sun was rising above the horizon and burning through some clouds I like how these tufa's framed it.

All comments are welcome,

Jim

View attachment 8840

WOW Jim!! This came out very nice! I love this!

 

[JimFox]

Great timing and framing, Jim. That's a lot of formations in one image! To me the foreground is too bright for the little light tat that early sun would provide.

Thanks Jeffrey. The sun had broken the horizon and was burning through the clouds so the ambient light was pretty bright, nothing was in shadows that I recalled. But I can understand you thinking the foreground should be darker, I had that thought myself, but with a darker foreground, the shot then didn't feel natural to me, so I went with this. If there was a subtle adjustment to darken it a bit, I just couldn't come up with it as I was processing.

Thanks.