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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una gran belleza natural
amazing clouds!
Amazing that you are able to see one in person. Nice capture…
Cool clouds!
Looks like upper part of Einstein head.
Nice photo. Its looking like a face of somesort.
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Nice Louis 🙂
Excellent!
That's beautiful!!!
Its really spectacular and it need to be appriciated.
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Beautiful
Utterly fantastic!! 🙂
Nice job!
wow.. amazing, incredible
beautiful!
sobhan allah
it's fine
Amazing….
look at those lenti's 🙂 Nice +Jeff Sullivan !
Intreagingly beautiful….
Amazing …..!
Lenticular, my favorite cloud type! :+)
Perfect nature!
magnifique ce que la nature peut faire!
Finally! I've been waiting for that mothership for years…
Looks like E.T.
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wow!!
Wow
Nice
Excellent photograph of a tremendous phenomenon!
wow! looks awesome!
Sa me fai pensé, au film.
Indépendance day. Et vous ?
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Uuuuuuuuhh awe. Dude
Interesting cloud formation. Well done picture. Thanks. I had no idea that there was a Three Sisters here in California. I know the ones in Oregon in the Cascades.
Eine ganz tolle Aufnahme, Respekt
a trojan horse…?!
Bonita imagen, gracias
That's pretty
wow its beautiful
Magnifique
Amazing, but can you see the profile of a face mid center.
Looks like a forehead and a nose
Simply gorgeous!
Beauty
Sounds like the kind of fail that is, for me, an almost daily occurrence. Keeps me humble, I suppose.
Beautiful
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Amazing! The sky really produces some crazy things for everyone to enjoy. Capturing them is the best 🙂
Very nice photo, thanks for sharing!
Amazing
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fantastic 🙂
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!
Amazing.