A photography workshop through Foothill community college found us in the Mono Lake area. In the company of ten other photographers and our instructor Steve Kiser we ventured into Mono Lake and the ghost town of Bodie
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A sunrise picture of the tufas in Mono Lake. I used a Singh-Ray Gold-N-Blue Circular Polarizer in this picture to enhance the blue skies and the tufas. All pictures in this album were taken with the Nikon D70S camera and the Nikon 17-55mm f2.8 lens.
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The "tufa castle". On this particular day and at this angle this tufa formation reminded us of a Scottish castle on a deserted island.
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In this shot we pointed our cameras at the colorful sunset developing in the Eastern Sierras. I used a Singh-Ray two-stop graduated neutral density filter.
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Sand tufas at Navy Beach. I used a Nikon Circular Polarizer to darken the blue sky. These tufas are only 3-4 ft tall.
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Sometimes the lighting and angle at which you see the tufas makes them resemble familiar shapes. We like to call this picture the "tufa camel".
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Taking a break from photographing tufas. Mono Lake in the background.
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Photographing the sunrise in the Mono Lake area. I used fill-in flash to lighten the bush.
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Bodie, a state historic park is about half an hour north of Mono Lake on route 395. We spent an afternoon photographing this gost town.
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