A sweet short regular weekend ride with Piyush on his VFR. My first serious attempt at landscape photography, inspired by my friend Arup Biswas who shoots large format. I slowed down, used tripod, ISO100 and long shutter speeds to capture silky smooth water at the mono lake at sunset and sunrise. I am still amazed to taste the rewards of landscape photography.
Day 1 (Sat 18 Oct): Early morning start at 7am. Uneventful ride till yosemite and then we started stopping often at the lakes. It was cloudy, so I missed the blue waters of my favorite lake - Tenaya. But we got some fine scenary at lake Elery, with some early snow on the mountains. Reached Lee Vining around 4:30 and went for the south tufa area of Mono Lake. The last 1 mile was packed gravel and I got really stiff when riding squirrely on it. The wing handled it very well and in the next trip I had no worries at all. When I started doing long exposures as the sun went down, I got addicted to the quality of images I was getting, it was pretty exciting for me. There was not much dramatic clouds, so I thought I could come back another day. Finished the day with a good dinner at Nicely’s restaurant opposite our motel.
Day 2 (Sun 19 Oct): Started at 6am for the tufas again, to catch sunrise. It was even better than last evening, despite the cold. We had wind chill upto 20F. I never enjoyed landscape photography like that before. I got seriously addicted. We went for the June lake loop soon after. This year the fall colors were not as intense as they should have been, due to an early cold spell. But I got enough to satisfy my hunger for landscapes. We got scenic roads all the way through 395 and Sonora pass. Took a cat nap at Cold Springs before the final ride to home via Oakdale.
Pictures:
- Priti’s flickr set
- My flickr set
pictures are absolute awesome. specially Mono Lake. I never could catch the blue’ish moon even though i have visted Mono Lake 10 times and its my dream to see it once. 108/Sonora Pass is my best ride ever and the road is as smooth as butter and holy chicane
I wonder how you did that with the Goldwing, it must have been a great feeling though. 395 towards 108/Sonora Pass is a beautiful stretch and a fast ride. love it too … Great ride, keep coming
Pictures are incredible - I wish I could take photo’s like that to help chronicle the places I’ve seen along the road. Nicely done!
Joy - got ur email and checked out the pic links again. Awesome and Great photos, More than the quality the frames yout thought of capturing and of course their angles are amazing !!
Nice trip man… good you guys enjoyed. Also, I think the photography is some of your best nature photography. Great pics by Priti too.