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This was captured at Lake Tahoe in June of 2012. The water level was much higher in 2011 than it was in 2012 when this was captured, due to the drought the Sierra Nevada has suffered since 2011. Lake Tahoe during past summers has been like a second home to me, I often drive up there from Reno on the weekends from spring through fall to swim and explore. Over the past two decades, some of the places I used to visit, have become overcrowded. It is amazing to see how MANY people pack in to the familiar places I have frequented over the past 40 years to catch rays, swim, etc. I have seen the population around this area grow for sure! The sad thing is, a lot of disrespectful people leave their litter on the beaches, in the rocks, (including glass bottles) and some are tagging granite boulders along the shoreline. Some of these tagged/painted boulders are located in this image in the distant background. This has been a problem before over the years, but with more and more people frequenting the lake, it is a bigger problem now. © MIKE CLASEN PHOTOGRAPHY www.mikeclasenphotography.com
This image, detailing textures of an ancient world, is a focus stack/exposure blend consisting of 11 captures. Captured August 2015 for a TMCC Photography Course project. This image is not for sale in any medium, it is for display purposes only. © MIKE CLASEN PHOTOGRAPHY www.mikeclasenphotography.com
This single exposure was captured using four off camera speed lights to illuminate ancient rock art on conjoined tufa barrels, while balancing the off camera flash with the setting sun and matching its warmth by using 1/2 CTO gel filters. One off camera speed-light was handheld and directed towards the tufa barrels in shade, while each of the other three speed-lights were positioned on the ground at different angles to illuminate the face of the tufa barrel’s to reveal the ancient rock art. An f-stop of f/18 was used to yield a fine crisp sunstar. This image was captured during the fall of 2014 for a project I created called “Light on Ancient Art”, which detailed ancient rock art in northern Nevada that was illuminated by off camera flash. These tufa formations were created thousands of years ago from discharging springs at the bottom of ancient Lake Lahontan. This area is also located in the Great Basin Desert which is the largest desert in the USA and covers most all of the state of Nevada. © MIKE CLASEN PHOTOGRAPHY http://www.mikeclasenphotography.com
