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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..

Looking across Topaz Lake on the California / Nevada border a couple of nights ago, there were some huge “Sierra Wave” lenticular clouds forming. 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 it in manual focus, 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 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. 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.

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  1. I was looking at the time-lapse video of these clouds this week and it's really cool watching these clouds form.  I was able to clean up everything but the hordes of gnats we had at the lake in early May.  In the video they're like dust spots which appear and disappear at random during the video.  It's pretty funny to watch, but it could turn out to be quite a chore if a client decided they were interested in the video without the bugs!

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