Just a few quick photos from this weekend, a hiking trip up to Lone Pine Lake (elevation ?9900 ft) near California’s Mount Whitney. An incoming storm and some odd light patterns gave me some unexpectedly gorgeous pictures (even for a pathetically amateurish photographer like me), so I thought I’d share a few. Call it stress relief.
Enjoy!
Base camp, between the Eastern Sierras and the Inyo Mountains:
The approach to Mount Whitney:
The husband, ahead of me on the trail:
Snow in the foreground, desert in the background:
First view of Lone Pine Lake:
This is me, tiny next to a pine tree:
The lake stands perched at the edge of a steep decline, so there’s no background except open air. It’s a neat effect:
Back to the valley:
Enjoy!
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but for now, just needed to clear the air.
How far did you hike? Was it an overnighter in the snow?
And since we are sharing photos, here are a couple that I took recently…
A tarantula walking across my pool.
Bella picking her nose.
look like Obama supporters to me!
The sense of awe and peace those pictures impart is amazing.
Thank You!
But brrrr, I’m not ready for snow yet. 😉
some even look a little surreal, almost dreamlike!
did you run into any critters? like bears?
This photography is excellent and removes us all to a place where we need to be from time to time — losing ourselves in the extraordinary beauty of nature resulting in a sense of “connection” — connection to it all! So very necessary! Thank you again!
…I suppose, that Muir lacked a digital camera, but the pictures would have been fine. Like this, I’ll bet; bright and shadow emptying up into gray light and distance.
You have a lovely eye. Bhrueglesque, in a western american kinda way… 🙂
i would recommend framing and hanging a few of those, pico. truly great photos.
my favorite is the pic with the fallen tree.
clear air, thanks.