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Mono Lake Sunrise Telephoto

© Jeff Sullivan

Mono Lake Sunrise Telephoto

Uploaded: May 26, 2009

Description

I went way out to the East, then shot back West just as the sun's alpenglow was hitting Mt. Dana.

The elevation change from the lake up to the top of Mt. Dana is about 6000 feet.

Zooming in tight without cropping out the ridge made the tufa as large as they could be in this sort of distant and depth-compressed image going from lake to Sierra crest (moving closer could make the tufa larger, but the mountains shrink into the background). Placing the ridgeline high in the composition helps the mountains appear loom over the tufa in the foreground.

Overall it's a composition and perspective that you don't see very often from Mono Lake.

Exif: F Number: 11, ExposureTime: 13/10 seconds, ISO: 200, FocalLength: 106.00 mm, Model: Canon EOS 40D

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