When a storm passes across a mountain range, it doesn’t clear off the same way it does in the low country. Clouds hang over the peaks typically for several days. This was a day after a storm crossed the Sierras and while it was sunny in the valley, it wasn’t in the high country. Folks hiking the Pacific Crest Trail would have been getting wet.
I was just leaving Manzanar … the WWII Japanese Internment Camp … when I noticed a dust devil forming in the field just to the north. I found a good spot to pull the car over and grabbed my camera. It wasn’t long after I took this shot that it started to dissipate.
Looking east across the Owens River valley to the White Mountains, just north of Lone Pine, CA. There isn’t much rainfall in this area, and when there is rain, it often falls in isolated showers like this one. It lasted just a few minutes, but provided some needed moisture to that particular location.
This was taken from the Mt Whitney Portal Road near the town of Lone Pine, CA. The boulders in the foreground are part of the Alabama Hills, a frequent location for shooting western movies and tv shows in the ’50’s.
2021-04 Trip Photo Notes B&W 1
After coming down from the Bristlecone Forest, we stopped in at Manzanar so that I could get a photo of Mt WIlliamson and the clouds. Manzanar was one of the Japanese Internment Camps during World War II and I had visited a couple times before. The photo was taken by the cemetery, which sits in the back of the camp area.
Ansel Adams took one of his most famous photos of Mt Williamson from Manzanar during his documentation of the camp during the war. His location was slightly different than mine, he had a boulder field in the foreground. I liked the way the cloud line followed the line of the ridge and summit.