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These pictures were taken in early June as the sun began to illuminate the eastern face of the Sierra Nevada west of Bishop, California. The lower peaks and the floor of the Owens Valley remained in shadow. One photo shows a very early morning view, with sagebrush and other shrubs in the foreground. In the other image, an almost-full moon was setting just above the peaks. To make this image, I combined two photographs, one of the moon and one of the Sierra. I could not move far enough east to use sufficient focal length for a large moon image without cropping out too much of the mountains, so I zoomed in on the moon (to about 300 mm), and then pulled back to about 100 mm for the right composition of the peaks. I also shifted the moon's position slightly to the right. |
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