The Landscape Photography Thread

[Stalking Light]

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[Lighthawk]

Table_Mtn_Map.pdf

Here's a link to a good map.
I tried to upload the map but the 500k limit is, well, limiting.

 

[Bseek]

Lighthawk: I got a little confused. There is a Table Mountain in Tuolumne County that was created the same way with very similar vegetation. Your pictures are beautiful and a reminder to me that I better get to my Table Mountain soon before the vernal pools dry up. Beautiful pictures. Travel safe.

 

[Casa Escarlata Robles Too]

Myself also.There are similar lava flows coming off Sonora Pass area west down past Sonora.
Long 40+ mile flows.
Driven past many times but never got into them.The one in the Sonora area is used a lot by climbers.
Nice pictures.
Thanks.
Frank

 

[Wandering Sagebrush]

Here in the Sierra foothills there's a special place called Table Mountain. Now a volcanic plateau, it was formed when a lava flow came down an ancient river channel and solidified. As the surrounding valley sediments eroded, the plateau was left almost a thousand feet higher. Table Mountain is famous for vernal waterfalls (nearly a dozen) and springtime floral displays.

Andy, is this the Table Mountain that is about 50 miles south of Chico (Oroville?). If so, I thought I was going to have a coronary here, doing a climb on the tandem for the Wildflower Century. Tough climb after trying to keep up with the fast movers. It is a beautiful area!!!

 

[Lighthawk]

Clarification for everyone: This Table Mountain (original,eh?) is located just north of Oroville. Access is from Cherokee Rd., which WS has learned, is a steep curvy climb. For those of us who use internal combustion engines, it's a piece of cake!

https://goo.gl/maps/GVoVHJW9kbD2


I suspect other similar formations may also be experiencing a good spring floral display, so get out there and enjoy!

 

[Stalking Light]

Dogwoods at the Carter Shields Cabin in Cades Cove, GSMNP

 

[Casa Escarlata Robles Too]

Eastern Dogwoods,very special.
Thanks
Frank

 

[Wandering Sagebrush]

Charlie, that's a wonderful photo!

 

[Stalking Light]

Thanks guys.

 

[daverave]

A couple of Saturdays ago in the Carrizo Plain (actually the same rainy weekend as the FWC meet-up that we were oblivious to.)

 

[daverave]

Another one from the same morning zoomed to the distant Temblor Range.

 

[longhorn1]

Great photo Charlie. Can't wait to get back to the Smoky's

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[billharr]

A couple of Saturdays ago in the Carrizo Plain (actually the same rainy weekend as the FWC meet-up that we were oblivious to.)

I hope you were not the newer Silver Spur camper that drove by the group when we stopped at Traver Ranch. We waved and the camper just kept going. If I was passing 10 FWC's parked I would have stopped to see what was going on. We just might do it again next year. Hope you can make it.

 

[daverave]

I hope you were not the newer Silver Spur camper that drove by the group when we stopped at Traver Ranch.

Guilty as charged, Bill! We were in hurry-up mode to get back to Sacramento after 12 days on the road with our sick cat. Could have been a case of I-5 anxiety fever, too. (Hate that road.) It won't happen again, promise.

 

[Wandering Sagebrush]

An iPhone pano, taken at the movie museum in Lone Pine. Not too bad for a phone camera...

 

[Kodachrome]

Ah, what the heck, I might as well show what I do for work and why I own my camper.

1st up image from a current book project in progress, the Black Canyon of the Gunnison. Shot with a Hasselblad 501 CM, 60mm 3.5 CF @ F8, Rollei IR400 black and white film, darkroom printed on Ilford Warmtone Fiber paper...

 

[Kodachrome]

Second up, a remote spot in the Rockies that I visit every few years. Shot with a Hasselblad 501CM, 50mm F4 FLE @ F11, one minute exposure made on Agfa APX25 black and white film, darkroom printed on Ilford Warmtone Fiber paper...

 

[Kodachrome]

3rd up, Crater Lake Reflection. Shot with a Chamonix 45N-2 4x5 field camera, Nikkor SW 90mm F8 lens @ F22, 1/2 second on Kodak Tmax 100 film, darkroom printed on Ilford Warmtone Fiber paper....

 

[Kodachrome]

One last shot, done two Saturdays ago for a fine art commission, inside of a marble quarry. Shot with a Chamonix 45N-2 4x5 field camera, Nikkor SW 75mm 4.5 lens @ F22, 4 seconds on Kodak Tmax 100 film, darkroom printed on Ilford Warmtone Fiber paper. My assistant did several pops of a portable 1,200 watt strobe on the closer walls to balance the light....