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Summer Milky Way and Reflection
For those of us in the Northern Hemipshere the bright, complex center of our Milky Way Galaxy rises highest in the night sky in the weeks close to the Summer solstice on June 22. Here's a shot from early July, captures high in the Ansel Adams Wilderness at an elevation of 10,000 feet.
The image was captured in July 2010 on a Canon 5D Mark II, on a moonless night.
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Summer Milky Way and Reflection
For those of us in the Northern Hemipshere the bright, complex center of our Milky Way Galaxy rises highest in the night sky in the weeks close to the Summer solstice on June 22. Here's a shot from early July, captures high in the Ansel Adams Wilderness at an elevation of 10,000 feet.
The image was captured in July 2010 on a Canon 5D Mark II, on a moonless night.
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Wild Iris Season in the Eastern Sierra
This is the time of year when the wild iris are blooming in the Eastern Sierra. They'll be doing great down near Bishop through the end of the month, and the bloom will move up in elevation until it reaches the Bridgeport area at 7000 feet in early to mid June.
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Wild Iris Season in the Eastern Sierra
This is the time of year when the wild iris are blooming in the Eastern Sierra. They'll be doing great down near Bishop through the end of the month, and the bloom will move up in elevation until it reaches the Bridgeport area at 7000 feet in early to mid June.
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Pancake Cloud
Here's another shot of the huge "Sierra Wave" lenticular clouds forming over Topaz Lake on the California / Nevada border a couple of nights ago. The peaks on the horizon, the Three Sisters, mark the California/Nevada border. The North Sister on the left is in Nevada, the South Sister on the right is in California, and the Middle Sister straddles the two states, with its peak lying just into California.
Fortunately I put two cameras out to shoot time-lapse sequences, because for at least part of the time with one of them I forgot to switch the lens into manual focus. That's really ironic, since for landscape I most often use a wide lens and use manual focus to control depth of field, but because I was using f/8 at a long focal length, I wanted the camera to focus more accurately than my eyes could. So I got both cameras set up and shooting, and went back inside. When I went back out to check the cameras, it had gotten dark enough that one of them was hunting for focus, and missing shots in the sequence as a result. That's what I get I suppose, for departing from my normal workflow, for complicating the setup with two cameras at once..
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Pancake Cloud
Here's another shot of the huge "Sierra Wave" lenticular clouds forming over Topaz Lake on the California / Nevada border a couple of nights ago. The peaks on the horizon, the Three Sisters, mark the California/Nevada border. The North Sister on the left is in Nevada, the South Sister on the right is in California, and the Middle Sister straddles the two states, with its peak lying just into California.
Fortunately I put two cameras out to shoot time-lapse sequences, because for at least part of the time with one of them I forgot to switch the lens into manual focus. That's really ironic, since for landscape I most often use a wide lens and use manual focus to control depth of field, but because I was using f/8 at a long focal length, I wanted the camera to focus more accurately than my eyes could. So I got both cameras set up and shooting, and went back inside. When I went back out to check the cameras, it had gotten dark enough that one of them was hunting for focus, and missing shots in the sequence as a result. That's what I get I suppose, for departing from my normal workflow, for complicating the setup with two cameras at once..
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Lenticular Cloud at Sunset Last Night
Even when I'm not out actively pursuing photographs, sometimes they arrive at my doorstep anyway.
Lenticular clouds are so common in the Eastern Sierra they ore often referred to locally as "Sierra Wave Clouds." Air flows over the Sierra Nevada, dips into the steep 4000 to 10,000 foot drop off here on the back side, then takes a bounce back up, and water vapor condenses as the air rises and cools at the top of that downstream wave. It's like the wave which can form on the downstream side of a rock submerged in a river.
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Lenticular Cloud at Sunset Last Night
Even when I'm not out actively pursuing photographs, sometimes they arrive at my doorstep anyway.
Lenticular clouds are so common in the Eastern Sierra they ore often referred to locally as "Sierra Wave Clouds." Air flows over the Sierra Nevada, dips into the steep 4000 to 10,000 foot drop off here on the back side, then takes a bounce back up, and water vapor condenses as the air rises and cools at the top of that downstream wave. It's like the wave which can form on the downstream side of a rock submerged in a river.
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Lake Tahoe Sunset near Sand Harbor State Park< Nevada
Last night I tried a photo cropped to a 1:2 shape to see how it would work, this one is 1:3: 300 pixels by 900 pixels. Let's see how it looks with the #NewLook G+ layout...
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Lake Tahoe Sunset near Sand Harbor State Park< Nevada
Last night I tried a photo cropped to a 1:2 shape to see how it would work, this one is 1:3: 300 pixels by 900 pixels. Let's see how it looks with the #NewLook G+ layout...
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Elevated Pool
As I was exploring the rocky shores of La Jolla I came upon this sandstone mound with a little pool of seawater on top. It looks like someone stepped in it and splashed some of the water out right before I found it.
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Elevated Pool
As I was exploring the rocky shores of La Jolla I came upon this sandstone mound with a little pool of seawater on top. It looks like someone stepped in it and splashed some of the water out right before I found it.
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San Francisco Photowalk Tonight
For the photowalk in San Francisco to be attended by 1300 people tonight, apparently Google+ events have a "party mode" which will allow people to upload photos in real time so others can follow along: https://plus.google.com/events/cm6l1qj16ktg9f8sv69ep7b2rhk
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San Francisco Photowalk Tonight
For the photowalk in San Francisco to be attended by 1300 people tonight, apparently Google+ events have a "party mode" which will allow people to upload photos in real time so others can follow along: https://plus.google.com/events/cm6l1qj16ktg9f8sv69ep7b2rhk
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How Blue is Blue Hour?
This is adjusted to an ultra-warm color temperature of more than ISO 40,000, and it's still blue!
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How Blue is Blue Hour?
This is adjusted to an ultra-warm color temperature of more than ISO 40,000, and it's still blue!
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Moon Rising Over Half Dome
This photo of the moon rising over Half Dome was taken earlier this year, on Feb 22, in Yosemite National Park, California.
Permits for Events and Workshops on Public Lands
I was chatting with a friend on G+ recently and he said he might start leading photography workshops. The requirements vary from property to property, but generally you need $2 million in liability insurance, first aid training, and you have to apply for permits ranging from $200 per year to $1500 for a single event, and there can be additional monitor charges. I've been down that road, so I referred him to this useful summary of parks and permit requirements:
Still Photography and Permits On US and California Public Land
http://www.largeformatphotography.info/photo-permits/
What happens if you don't get a permit? I hear that the fines are not small, and there are photographers who will gladly turn you in if they catch you with a group and no permit. For example here's a note which was circulating earlier this year.
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Fellow Photography Workshop Operators,
My name is Stephen Oachs, the founder of the Aperture Academy, based in San Jose, California. The Aperture Academy (http://www.apertureacademy.com) conducts over 200 workshops each year with approximately 30% of these operated with the National Park System, National Forests and other government managed areas.
As you should know, working with government agencies to obtain the proper permits is challenging and comes with a long list of requirements, including proper insurance, CPR training, and wilderness certifications such as Leave No Trace, EMT and/or Wilderness First Responder training. These requirements are understandable as we are responsible for providing our customers with not only a fun and educational experience, but most importantly a safe one.
It has come to our attention over the past few months that there are more and more photographers conducting workshops without the proper permits, insurance and safety training and this is causing the park system to increase their scrutiny in an effort to police the offenders. With that, it is also making it more difficult for those of us who operate legally and do everything it takes to ensure full compliance.
For those of you who share in our mission to operate legally, safely and ethically, thank you. For those of you who continue to cheat the system and refuse to abide by the law, I am asking you to either step up and begin operating legally, or, choose to operate your photography workshops in locations that do not require special use permits.
Given the importance of this type of compliance and how violators threaten the future success of Aperture Academy and other tour businesses, If you insist on operating illegally and we become aware of this, we will not hesitate to report you to the appropriate government agencies.
Thank you for your understanding and attention to this matter -- good luck to you all in 2013!
Stephen W. Oachs
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Gallery: (408) 369-8585
http://www.ApertureAcademy.com
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Moon Rising Over Half Dome
This photo of the moon rising over Half Dome was taken earlier this year, on Feb 22, in Yosemite National Park, California.
Permits for Events and Workshops on Public Lands
I was chatting with a friend on G+ recently and he said he might start leading photography workshops. The requirements vary from property to property, but generally you need $2 million in liability insurance, first aid training, and you have to apply for permits ranging from $200 per year to $1500 for a single event, and there can be additional monitor charges. I've been down that road, so I referred him to this useful summary of parks and permit requirements:
Still Photography and Permits On US and California Public Land
http://www.largeformatphotography.info/photo-permits/
What happens if you don't get a permit? I hear that the fines are not small, and there are photographers who will gladly turn you in if they catch you with a group and no permit. For example here's a note which was circulating earlier this year.
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Fellow Photography Workshop Operators,
My name is Stephen Oachs, the founder of the Aperture Academy, based in San Jose, California. The Aperture Academy (http://www.apertureacademy.com) conducts over 200 workshops each year with approximately 30% of these operated with the National Park System, National Forests and other government managed areas.
As you should know, working with government agencies to obtain the proper permits is challenging and comes with a long list of requirements, including proper insurance, CPR training, and wilderness certifications such as Leave No Trace, EMT and/or Wilderness First Responder training. These requirements are understandable as we are responsible for providing our customers with not only a fun and educational experience, but most importantly a safe one.
It has come to our attention over the past few months that there are more and more photographers conducting workshops without the proper permits, insurance and safety training and this is causing the park system to increase their scrutiny in an effort to police the offenders. With that, it is also making it more difficult for those of us who operate legally and do everything it takes to ensure full compliance.
For those of you who share in our mission to operate legally, safely and ethically, thank you. For those of you who continue to cheat the system and refuse to abide by the law, I am asking you to either step up and begin operating legally, or, choose to operate your photography workshops in locations that do not require special use permits.
Given the importance of this type of compliance and how violators threaten the future success of Aperture Academy and other tour businesses, If you insist on operating illegally and we become aware of this, we will not hesitate to report you to the appropriate government agencies.
Thank you for your understanding and attention to this matter -- good luck to you all in 2013!
Stephen W. Oachs
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Gallery: (408) 369-8585
http://www.ApertureAcademy.com
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