Ellery Lake

• John Muir.

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I still remember the first time I set my eyes on the Sierra Nevada mountains of California. We took a summer roadtrip after seeing a brochure about the town of Bishop and the beautiful Rt 395. The first time I saw the mountains they reminded me of Ladakh and the Himalayan Mountains. They might not be as tall as the Himalayas, but they stood tall and mighty from the desert floor the same. I have also had the luck of crossing the Tioga Pass on the day it was open to public after winter. We drove from Yosemite Valley via the beautiful scene of the tioga pass highway to Mono Lake on the eastern side of the the Sierras.

This shot was taken at Ellery lake just after the sun was setting. We passed the Tioga lake and the Toulemne meadows before seeing the this semi frozen lake with perfect golden light on the mountains surrounding the lake. I grabbed the camera and tripod and did the short hike to a higher perch to find this beautiful viewpoint. This was a panorama shot made of about 4 images taken in vertical orientation.

• Elbert Hubbard.

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Another shot from our short excursion to Tioga Pass, I am not sure which lake this is exactly but this one was completely frozen over and as we were driving by the setting sun was peaking over the mountain peaks and lighting up the mountains perfectly. I didn’t had all my gear with me so I just grabbed my tripod and camera and took a HDR panorama at 35mm just see the scale of the mountains surrounding the lake. It was unbelievably cold and windy outside and caught a cold to get this one. Aah the sacrifices we photographers make 

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