A reminder that beauty does exist in the world and perhaps better things are possible. Wishing you all djam karet, the moment that stretches.

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Weird Shapes In The Alabama Hills

A quick note that if you decide to fly a drone in the Alabama Hills, you need to get a permit from the Bureau of Land Management in Bishop. The good news is they are nice people.

And it's the only way you

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Alabama Hills And The Eastern Sierra Nevada Mountains

It turns out you need a permit to fly a drone in the Alabama Hills so I went through the process last year. The permit is only good for a year s

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Looking Down on the Alabama Hills

The Alabama Hills are an interesting set of rock formation and mining claims near Lone Pine, California. I have written about them before, here.

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Trying to hammer though this one trip. Here are some of the views from our campsite in Alabama Hills


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More rocks in big rockstar piles. At some point I really need to read up on this area and how it formed.

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Between two rocks. The landscape around AlabamaHills was wild


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Stone Magi
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Have you been under the stars in Alabama Hills? Fantastic rock formations, and the mighty Sierra Nevada mountains nearby. This is not quite a super dark sky photo, as the moon was already rising, illuminating the mountains. But still, we can see the Milky Way overhead. To create this night photo, I set the camera on a tripod. I opened the camera shutter for a long time. While the shutter was open, I walked around with a handheld ProtoMachines LED2 light capable of producing different colors, and illuminated the scene. During the exposure, all the light I shined on the subject was cumulative. This process is called "light painting". Why? Because one uses the flashlight as a paint brush, "brushing" on light, not paint. Light painting to illuminate subjects is a beautiful, addictive art, as you can walk around the scene, deciding what to bring to light and what to keep in shadow. And it's more fun than AI-generated images.
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(Plate 3662) Pentax K-1/15-30mm f/2.8 lens. October 2024.
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