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Trying to decide whether to go here next week

It's snowing now at this site at 9000 feet elevation, with the snow level down at 3700 feet.  Then again, the temperature down in the Valley could get to 92, so maybe the dirt road to this site may be passable by then!

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  1. (we also harvested a mason jar full of gigantic pine nuts that trip.  They were falling out of the trees just uphill from the kilns.  Sounded like rain or hail, there were so many pine nuts raining down.  Squirrels couldn't keep up with the windfall.)

  2. It was early October.  I thought the bushes in front of the kilns were blooming (or something).  Turned out to just be ladybird beetles glomming onto every sheltered surface on the branches of the low scrub.

  3. That's the strategy of the pinyon pines… produce massive quantities of pine nuts at once, so some will get past the rodents, birds and bears (and people).  I collected 2 pounds under one tree in the Eastern Sierra.

  4. Im a poor man…..lol i love taking photos of the wild ''the great outdoors'' i dont got the money to travel quit yet in my life. So do this trip for me. It looks amazing. U ever need a tag a long im your guy

  5. Wonderful shot in a really magical location.  So, +Jeff Sullivan, I can tell that this is a time exposure, but did you go in and light paint the six interiors?  While I'm on the light painting thing, if you were to revisit, you should also try to lightly paint them from behind by casting a faint line of light along the edge of them.  That might get them to stand out against the background.  Maybe as a 2nd frame to lightly mask in.  Maybe… just thinking out loud.

  6. When, +Jeff Sullivan? I fly back in next Friday afternoon and have 48 hours to burn before H's birthday party and then flying back out again… I always thought that a single battery-operated tea light in each one might be an interesting amount of light in a night shot….

  7. When, +Jeff Sullivan? I fly back in next Friday afternoon and have 48 hours to burn before H's birthday party and then flying back out again… I always thought that a single battery-operated tea light in each one might be an interesting amount of light in a night shot….

  8. You wouldn't want to be here when we're crowding the place up +John H. Moore.  This composition is barely possible with a 14mm or 16mm lens, and there's room for maybe 3 tripods before the ground falls off or the angle/composition changes too much.  (We'll have at least 3X that number of people.)

  9. You wouldn't want to be here when we're crowding the place up +John H. Moore.  This composition is barely possible with a 14mm or 16mm lens, and there's room for maybe 3 tripods before the ground falls off or the angle/composition changes too much.  (We'll have at least 3X that number of people.)

  10. Thank you +Rafael Quintana.  When you cook a good meal, do people ask you what pan and stove you have?  
    What camera I use makes little or no difference in the result.
    "You don't take a photograph, you make it." – Ansel Adams 

    There is no short cut to good photography (such as buying some ultimate camera), there is only technique, and practice.

  11. I don't think it physically closes +Bill Wight, it'll come down to how much snow is on the road and how well your tires do in whatever snow is on the road.  You'll want Winter clothing for a night visit.  It could be beautiful up there with a little snow on the ground, and a crescent moon to light it up a bit.

  12. I've been watching the progress +Charles Leung.  A few photographers caught it from the Southern Hemisphere.  It should be visible from the Northern Hemisphere now, but people don't seem to be having much luck capturing it so far.  I may go out and look for it tonight or tomorrow.

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