The Alabama Hills

We’re home now.  Between business and lack of internet I didn’t get much posting done on the road.  So now I’ll just break down the trip by locations.  We stayed in the town of Lone Pine in order to photograph the Alabama Hills, between the town and Mt Whitney.  Here’s Dave doing what we do.

 

 

The Alabama Hills are just some hills made from piles of huge rocks.  Hundreds of movies were filmed here.  You’ve probably seen some movies film here and didn’t realize it.  That’s Dave again with the Sierras and Mt Whitney in the background.

 

Mt Whitney is just about dead center of this shot.  It doesn’t look like the tallest but that’s just because it sits further back.  It’s the tallest mountain in the lower 48 states.

 

Here is some local vegetation with Mt. Whitney on the far right.

 

This is typical scenery in the hills if you can call any of this typical.

 

 

Here is the same arch as seen from the other side.

 

This may help convey the overall view of the hills.

 

On Tuesday afternoon when I spotted this arch, I told Dave it would be cool to get a shot of the moon through it if you only knew when to be there.  We got up at 4:30 Wednesday for some sunrise shots and guess what….

 

Dave took this shot.  I like the way it show the layers of terrain.

 

You just have to get some rest where ever you can.

 

Here is Mt. Whitney at sunrise.