Mt. Whitney Portal

This was taken at sunrise at the Mt. Whitney portal. Mt. Whitney is the third set of peaks from the left of this image and is 14,505 feet high.

Photographing Sunrise

I took this photo of a fellow participant while he was photographing sunrise.

Another Sunrise Shot

Mt. Whitney

Farmer's Pond

Sunset shot taken several miles south of Bishop

Lenticular Cloud

The next few photographs were taken during a severe windstorm west of Bishop. Some of the gusts were supposedly in excess of 60 miles per hour.

Approaching Storm

Another Lenticular Cloud

Lenticular clouds can be up to 40,000 feet in altitude. They are normally perpendicular to wind direction. They have been mistaken for UFO sightings due to their saucer shape.

Sunset West of Bishop

Sunrise on the Owens River

Mono Lake Tufa Towers

Mono Lake is 2 1/2 times as salty and 80 times as alkaline as the ocean. It was formed about 760,000 years ago and is about an hour south of Bishop on Hwy 395.

God Rays at Sunset on Mono Lake Shoreline

Hot Creek River

Photographer on Hot Creek River at Sunrise

Bridge Across Hot Creek River

The temperature on the morning of this shoot was 26 degrees. This allowed the steam from the river to be visible.

Macro of Ice and Grass in a Puddle

I liked the texture of this photo.

Another View of the Bridge

Panoramic of Owens Valley

This photo is comprised of nine images stitched together in photoshop. As you can see there is not a lot of snow on the mountain peaks for this time of year.