Lunar eclipse over the drought.

JCJC Registered Users Posts: 768 Major grins
edited April 14, 2015 in Landscapes
Made a super quick trip up to San Joaquin ridge looking across to the ritter range in the Sierra Nevada, which really need to be renamed the Sierra Seco these days.

Didn't really get what I wanted due to some difficulties, but this is what I got.

1)

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(yes, that is completely bare ground at ~9500 feet, in April)

2)

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Comments

  • roaddog52roaddog52 Registered Users Posts: 1,323 Major grins
    edited April 9, 2015
    #1 is interesting and 2 is a nice shot also.

    Just read our snow pack in the Washington Cascades is at 22%, it's going to be a dry summer for farmers on the eastside.

    Phil
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  • StumblebumStumblebum Registered Users Posts: 8,480 Major grins
    edited April 9, 2015
    #2 for me!
  • CornflakeCornflake Registered Users Posts: 3,346 Major grins
    edited April 9, 2015
    Both terrific. When I looked at the first, I thought: I would never have the patience to do that.
    Don
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  • ThelensspotThelensspot Registered Users Posts: 2,041 Major grins
    edited April 9, 2015
    Great shots and a terrific effort here! Really like them both.

    We are hearing a lot about your drought back east as well. There are some dramatic satellite picks comparing the present snow caps from previous years.

    http://www.nasa.gov/jpl/nasa-california-tuolumne-snowpack-40-percent-of-worst-year/
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  • CornflakeCornflake Registered Users Posts: 3,346 Major grins
    edited April 9, 2015
    The climate projections for Arizona and southern California make for somber reading.
    Don
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  • kdogkdog Administrators Posts: 11,681 moderator
    edited April 9, 2015
    Awesome, JC! clap.gif

    #2 is amazing. nod.gif
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  • bocoboco Registered Users Posts: 710 Major grins
    edited April 10, 2015
    ga ook voor de tweede.
    grt,boco.
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  • JCJC Registered Users Posts: 768 Major grins
    edited April 10, 2015
    thanks all, I'm pleasantly surprised at the reaction to #2, I was disappointed to not having been able to hike far enough to get the moon setting behind the high pointy minarets, so I settled for having it set behind the bumpy Starr minaret, but I'm glad to know my abbreviated effort was well received.

    A panoramic view of Ritter and Banner that I had to crop out to make a more balanced image.


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    and another closer crop of my first image. 5th moon down from the top is totality, others are at 10 minute intervals on each side of totality.

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  • EaracheEarache Registered Users Posts: 3,533 Major grins
    edited April 14, 2015
    Well done, all!
    Eric ~ Smugmug
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