Re: Fall leaf color season
Posted: Wed Oct 03, 2018 9:35 am
Looked at the NWS Reno and LV forecast discussions and then played with windy.com over the next week looking at large scale circulation, and then eastern Sierra wind, and cloud. Rather complex situation. Current weather is forecast to eject the current low with its rain today across SoCal and LV quickly. Thursday early looks like a lot of cloud and some rain. Then clears with a high building off the coast providing some weather around its periphery as inside slider weather from the Northwest. Sunday shows some am cloud.
For those interested in Bishop Creek areas above 9k, the peak is now so don't wait. For North Lake it is about the morning with front lighting from the eastern morning sun. The upper areas of the North Fork of Bishop Creek become quite cold like the other two BC canyons thus usually have significant cold sumping flows down canyon by sunrise that makes the surface of the lake very wavy and unaesthetic. All the vegetation around the stream will be icy. That was the situation on all my 4 days last week just likein past years so expecting that, I only worked the lake the last morning. If one climbs up just a bit higher on canyon walls than near the canyon bottom stream flows, one will find calmer air even at sunrise allowing near foreground elements that won't be blurred moving. There are a lot of stunted aspen for foregrounds above the NL campground however finding open views of peaks beyond requires topo/satellite work then exploring.
I'm just completing all my image processing today and then will take another day to code the html before such gets up on my site. I did get an excellent 15400 by 8600 5 column 2 row stitch panorama reflection of NL from 103 blended shots with a near full moon and nice high clouds. The lake surface usually does not become calm till mid morning when the sun on higher areas shuts down the sumping flows while an up canyon breeze from expanding air in the Owens briefly balances the two breezes. Even then a reflection is never a mirror because of the great many trout surface feeding, thus more painterly. Another reason to avoid NL shores too early is one will be in shade and the icy sump flow.
Also several high pixel panos with aspen and peaks from higher areas I'd already explored years ago. A good place to spend early morning is southward above the big parking lot along the dirt road at the southeast end of the lake people use to get to the outlet. One can climb up from there to the end of the ridge that has lots of yellow aspen in color with views right up the canyon. The parking lot trees themselves have some excellent red and orange stunted trees one can isolate for close-ups using skylight before sun reaches down.
NWS long range showing more weather moving into the Sierra about Wednesday October 10 so I am likely to be on a second road trip up north of Mono Lake about then.
For those interested in Bishop Creek areas above 9k, the peak is now so don't wait. For North Lake it is about the morning with front lighting from the eastern morning sun. The upper areas of the North Fork of Bishop Creek become quite cold like the other two BC canyons thus usually have significant cold sumping flows down canyon by sunrise that makes the surface of the lake very wavy and unaesthetic. All the vegetation around the stream will be icy. That was the situation on all my 4 days last week just likein past years so expecting that, I only worked the lake the last morning. If one climbs up just a bit higher on canyon walls than near the canyon bottom stream flows, one will find calmer air even at sunrise allowing near foreground elements that won't be blurred moving. There are a lot of stunted aspen for foregrounds above the NL campground however finding open views of peaks beyond requires topo/satellite work then exploring.
I'm just completing all my image processing today and then will take another day to code the html before such gets up on my site. I did get an excellent 15400 by 8600 5 column 2 row stitch panorama reflection of NL from 103 blended shots with a near full moon and nice high clouds. The lake surface usually does not become calm till mid morning when the sun on higher areas shuts down the sumping flows while an up canyon breeze from expanding air in the Owens briefly balances the two breezes. Even then a reflection is never a mirror because of the great many trout surface feeding, thus more painterly. Another reason to avoid NL shores too early is one will be in shade and the icy sump flow.
Also several high pixel panos with aspen and peaks from higher areas I'd already explored years ago. A good place to spend early morning is southward above the big parking lot along the dirt road at the southeast end of the lake people use to get to the outlet. One can climb up from there to the end of the ridge that has lots of yellow aspen in color with views right up the canyon. The parking lot trees themselves have some excellent red and orange stunted trees one can isolate for close-ups using skylight before sun reaches down.
NWS long range showing more weather moving into the Sierra about Wednesday October 10 so I am likely to be on a second road trip up north of Mono Lake about then.