White Mountains sunset

Gallery: LandscapePosted January 6, 2011142 views9 comments

I took this image on December 26 while in Mammoth Lakes, CA. It was 23 degrees outside during this magical sunset, looking east toward the White Mountains. Both the sky, and the December record snowfall below, lit up and fortunately lasted long enough before my fingers froze.

I used a Canon 60D with a Tamron 18-270 lens. ISO 400, 1/80 sec at f/8.0.

You will notice the January calendar on the lower right as I send out monthly calendars to friends for them to use as desktop wallpaper.

I would love any comments you may have.

Many thanks and Happy New Year to all.

Comments

9 comments

Comment posted by Bill Chambers on January 6, 2011 at 2:25 PM

Beautiful scene and very nice light. I do find the calendar to be distracting, but the scene is wonderful.

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Comment posted by Kyle L. Krause on January 6, 2011 at 4:00 PM

Great capture and presentation Frank. The clouds and light are beautiful, nice job.

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Comment posted by Keith Bauer on January 6, 2011 at 4:14 PM

The scene looks wonderful. Nice palette of color. Nice that you send out monthly calendars to friends, but I find the calendar here to be very distracting.

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Comment posted by Gary Crabbe on January 6, 2011 at 4:15 PM

That's great. Can you imagine how fast your fingers would freeze if you were standing atop those mountains? :)

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Comment posted by Alex Mody on January 6, 2011 at 4:58 PM

Beautiful color in the sky!

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Comment posted by Tony Kuyper on January 6, 2011 at 10:19 PM

Gorgeous light. I really like the scene. Do you have the calendar as a layer? Should be easy to strip off.

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Comment posted by Frank Damon on January 7, 2011 at 2:12 AM

Hi Tony: In a word, I don't have the layers on this image. I ALWAYS keep layers and save them so I can have the image without the calendar, but in my haste to do all my backing up and transferring photos to various external hard drives at year end, I screwed up and deleted the layered image and saved the one with the calendar. There are always lessons to be learned, and adhered to!

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Comment posted by Genny K. on January 7, 2011 at 2:57 PM

Pretty scene. (Given the telephone poles and the cabin, seems like it ought to have been in M&N)

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Comment posted by Aaron Burdick on January 10, 2011 at 4:52 PM

Howdy Frank! Glad to see you posting here! This shot is just wonderful. The colors are great and I love the simple layering composition leading up to the splendor of the sky. At its best, you really can't beat the light in the Eastern Sierras!

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