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Stars poke out through an early February twilight sky with Venus being visible between prehistoric tufa formations. Captured February 2015… © MIKE CLASEN PHOTOGRAPHY www.mikeclasenphotography.com
This is a single exposure captured last July on a Western Sierra Nevada slope. The West Coast of the US and the Sierra’s had a LOT of rainfall during spring and summer of 2015, and also, the Sierra’s had relatively NO snow during winter. The consistent amount of rainfall provided for some unique opportunities for photography; to capture the Sierra’s under conditions that normally just would not be there. During this capture sequence, there was a constant drizzle coming down, and the fog and low lying clouds just kept moving throughout the area diffusing the sunlight nicely, and creating a moody scene. With my lens tilted upwards at about a 35-degree angle, I had to shield the camera with a shower cap (they work great), and also held a Ziploc bag extended out and over the lens to keep the drizzle from falling on the glass. I recently found a rain shield that mounts on the hot shoe and extends out over the lens, hopefully this will serve its purpose fairly well. © MIKE CLASEN PHOTOGRAPHY www.mikeclasenphotography.com
This is a seriously messed up image, it is horrible quality, noise throughout, basically should be canned, but it would be hard to go capture this scene again considering the lightning bolts, at least in a long time. So, I did a quick edit on it for web display, and posted it just to see how it would do considering it is technically a disaster piece – hence the name. This image is NOT for sale in ANY medium, and is for display purposes only. © MIKE CLASEN PHOTOGRAPHY http://www.mikeclasenphotography.com
