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Here's side view of the sky! Taken from a private jet at an altitude of 45,000 feet. Notice how dark the sky above becomes at this altitude. Looking up, it becomes black.

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Some great shots everyone. Here's a link to one of my favorites I took a few years back of whitney....Whitney
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I got this shot of a weird cloud formation in DomeLand Wilderness back in November.

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This was taken on July 5th at Trail Camp along the Main Mt. Whitney Trail...I like that the cloud looks like demon wings and the pinnacles look like they are on fire.

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Expose yourself to your deepest fear; after that, fear has no power, and the fear of freedom shrinks and vanishes. You are free . . . . Jim Morrison


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Post by mountainLight »

Wow snowy, if i had seen that the last thing i would do would be to take a picture. I can't even imagine a funel that high up. Thanks for sharing.
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Too cool.
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This is something I shot with my view camera last Friday afternoon at dusk. Actually it is a crop from the 4x5 Provia transparency. Enough to make maybe a 11x14 inch full resolution print. The full image is one of a lake reflection in Silver Lake up on SR88. I may post that if someone is curious. Twas one of the hottest days during that heat wave and monsoonal t-storms built up most afternoons. This one had lots of lightning an hour or so earlier. Such days often present exceptional late light conditions on clouds if one is west of the clouds because there is usually clear blue skies to the west so the late warm light is unblocked. Also the storms tend to create areas of clearer air without haze. ...David
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Very nice sky shots in this thread!

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Here's a "reach out and touch the clouds" shot taken from the trail nearing Mt. Whitney, around 14,000' or so. The clouds were whizzin' right over our heads, what a feeling!




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One of those fiery sunsets that we've all seen in the High Sierra (but they don't happen often enough!), this one over a lake in Pioneer Basin, John Muir Wilderness. The colors happened so fast (I was actually taking pictures looking the other direction!) and they disappeared so fast that I didn't really have time to get the composition I really wanted, but still, it captures the beauty of the sunset.



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Another Pioneer Basin sky shot.




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Soft pastel sky from the... ... overlook, oops as usual, I'm not saying "where" in regards to the location. Some places are just plain secrets. :unibrow:




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This was a beautiful sky one evening while I was camped at Muriel Lake just over Piute Pass.




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Some cool lenticulars over Mono Lake (couldn't get the tufa tower to move out of my pic, ha!)



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I really liked this sky as I made the final ridge to Forester Pass from the north. This is looking back north from wence I came. As you can see, I use my fishing pole as a lightning rod. It worked... it took several direct hit lightning bolts that otherwise would've fried me. I didn't even lose a step.



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As most of us have who've been to Mono Lake have seen, the place is infested with incredible skies at sunset. We could probably fill this thread with just cool Mono Lake sky shots. In this shot, God was doing some last minute sweeping before He ended the day.



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This was kind of a cool sky, taken from a bluff in the Sinkyone Wilderness, Lost Coast, late afternoon.



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This is almost a "typical" High Sierra afternoon sky... deep blue with happy, puffy white cumulous clouds.


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Like I said, Mono Lake rarely fails! This time a hawk or osprey flew into my pic unexpected (10-second timer, I had nothing to do with it, ha!), which really added to an already cool sky.



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Sorry, I was only gonna post a couple shots. I like the sky in this shot because of the weird cloud shade against the sun beams. This is Evolution Lake, looking towards the outlet.



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"Sun" flower, looking up at the sky from an ant's perspective, a black ant, which is my favorite fly to use for Sierra trout. Everything always comes back to fishing.



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Hmmm... another Mono Lake sky shot. Well I'll be. This is Starship Enterprise coming in for a landing, well after the sun had set. It was cool, I had dinner with Cap'n Kirk.

As if creation isn't beautiful enough, God is always adding to it with amazing skies. Great thread idea!
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Okay, two more.


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Here's one of the very first pics I ever took with my Canon Elan 7 and Fuji Velvia 50 film. It was on the first roll. I didn't scan it at a very high resolution (sorry for the low-rez!) but man, it was a sweet sunset to witness! This is just outside of Bishop a couple miles. If you lived there, whew!, just think of the images you could get as these types of sunsets are not uncommon in the area.


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Duh, another Mono Lake sky! This was from my winter kayaking trip. It was amazing. I took 32 beeellion rolls of film, it was just incredibly gorgeous that stormy weekend! This was the same weekend as the image that ended up in NGA http://www.flickr.com/photos/buckforest ... 113622417/ and actually it was taken the same evening. I wanted to do it again last winter but couldn't pull it off, hopefully I will be able to this winter. It was an amazing experience. Okay, I'm done. Suuuure I am. You never know.
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