I'm just a lowly photo 1 student, on my first trip with the group. About 30-40 students out of the entire program go up each year. I've got about 7 years of photo experience, but only 2 of which are formal photography classes.
Here's the best of my images of the trip.
let me know what you think.
This is the road off off highway 395. We had to drive about 2 miles into the forest, which was a naturally occuring wall of trees. There was virtually no transition between the high plain-ish area and the forest.
This is Silver Lake. It’s located around the June Lake Loop off of HWY395. There’s not much going on in this town. Everyone was fishing or sitting on their porch chainsmoking.
stopped while driving along the freeway. There’s tons of turn offs along the freeway for tourists to take pictures. I am one of said tourists.
haha guns. I missed a turn and went to make a uturn in this driveway. I noticed the sign and empty parking lot with the hectic clouds in the background. This image looks a lot better blown up.
my favorite shot of the whole trip.
road to south tufa / mono lake
mono lake. These weird sculptures sticking up are called tufa, and are formed when the salt of the lake (it’s 2.5x saltier than the sea, and 100x more alkaline) reacts with the alkaline content. They form under the water, and after millions of years get really big. The water level has dropped and exposed the sculptures that were once hidden underneath. Very surreal.
more mono lake
more more mono lake
Karma Police is the new kumbaya.
chillin round the campfire
more chillin round the campfire
30 seconds, 1 flashlight.
my failed attempt at a 15 minute star trail. Next time I'm doing a 2 hour exposure when I get a locking cable release.
