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Tag Archives: Alabama Hills
BORED
Those who know me know I have an incredibly low boredom threshold. And all of this imposed quarantine due to the virus plus my crippled immune system due to the chemo, has simply pushed me into a near catatonic state … Continue reading
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Tagged Alabama Hills, digital photography, Layer masks, Photo 243, photography, Photoshop, San Diego City College, Tuttle Creek
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Shakedown Cruise for Rocinante II to the Bristlecone Pines
This past long weekend has been both the maiden voyage for the little VW Westfalia I leased from my friend and sometimes shooting partner (especially for food photography), Cynthia Sinclair (one of the very best sailing photographers on the coast … Continue reading
DATES for 2018 Bristlecone Pines Trek!
I just confirmed the dates for the 2018 Bristlecone Pines Trek. It will be Thursday through Sunday (as usual) July 12-15, 2018. Click on the link in the banner above for full details and itinerary, costs, etc. The good … Continue reading
Back to Alabama Hills…
If you have been reading this blog for any period of time then you are familiar with the famous “Alabama Hills” in the Owens Valley of California. Site of location shooting for countless movies from westerns to sci-fi to costumed … Continue reading
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Tagged Alabama Hills, landscape, Lone Pine, Mt. Whitney, painting with light, photography
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Found Files… (Or Why I Shoot Small capacity Memory Cards)
There are two approaches to the use of memory cards in the digital photography world. The most popular current one holds that the best plan is to get gigantic cards (32 gig, 64 gig and bigger if possible) so that … Continue reading
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Tagged Alabama Hills, HDR, memory cards, Movie Road, photography, sunbeams, Tuttle Creek
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Food, Rocks, and Fall Foliage
To borrow from Spock (the Vulcan not the Doctor), it had been an “interesting” week. The good news was that on Monday and Wednesday I shot food with Cynthia. Then I capped it off when I left Friday with the … Continue reading
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Tagged Alabama Hills, food, food photography, landscape, Mt. Whitney, photography
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Tales From The Oldest Living Organisms
CLICK ON AN IMAGE TO SEE IT ENLARGED There are but a very few places in this country where a very special type of tree grows. Limited to high altitudes and the most extreme weather imaginable, in the high Rockies … Continue reading
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Tagged Alabama Hills, bristlecone pines, California, Crooked Creek Research Station, photography, White Mountains, WMRS
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The 2013 Spring Field Trip to Alabama Hills
CLICK ON A PHOTOGRAPH TO SEE IT ENLARGED! San Diego — This past weekend was the Photo 245 “Nature & Landscape Photography” field trip to Owens Valley and Alabama Hills. This is the first trip for the class and next … Continue reading
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Tagged Alabama Hills, Mt. Lone Pine, Mt. Whitney, Owens Valley, photography, rocks, volcanism
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Back from Alabama Hills Field Trip
San Diego — The Landscape Class at City College’s Photo Program took its first major field trip to Owens Valley and the famed Alabama Hills this past Friday through Sunday. This wild and bizarre terrain has been featured in a … Continue reading
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Tagged Alabama Hills, City College Field Trip, Lone Pine, Manzanar, photography
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Lens Review 24mm TSE
San Diego — I have been toying with a Canon 24mm TSE lens, thinking it would be a good one to take on theLandscape Class’s Field Trip to Alabama Hills next weekend. My impressions of the lens are that it … Continue reading
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Travels with Rocinante 