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Sagebrush at sunset        Images © Mark A. Chappell

Long Valley in the eastern Sierra Nevada (Mono County, California), with its sagebrush shrubsteppe country surrounded by mountains, offers some great opportunities for photography at sunrise and sunset.   As a friend of mine says, if you put sagebrush in the foreground of most any scenic, it's almost guaranteed to be a good picture.   Although that's a bit of an exaggeration, I tend to follow that philosophy.   These photos were taken near the Sierra Nevada Aquatic Research Lab, on Convict Creek.

  • , Canon 1D mk. II, Canon 17-40 zoom with 2X or 3X graded neutral-density filters (2006, 2007)