Limestone Reflections
by Mike Lee
Title
Limestone Reflections
Artist
Mike Lee
Medium
Photograph - Digital Photography
Description
This is an image of a tufa formation at South Tufa on Mono Lake on a winter day. For those unaware, these towers are formed when subterranean fresh water springs enter highly alkaline salt water lakes (AKA “soda lakes”) . This causes a reaction with calcium and carbonate salts that forms insoluble calcium carbonate (limestone). This precipitates out and, over time, settles to form large deposits around the location of the springs.
On this day quite a bit of fog had formed on the lake in the cool morning air. It had already started to lift by the time I arrived near mid-day but it still made the background somewhat moody and helped to accentuate the wonderful formations. I shot this image with as long of a shutter opening as I could get away with to smooth the water out as best I could to accentuate that “mirror” look on the water. I also like the way the foreground formation sort of frames the smaller one in the distance.
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January 21st, 2022
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CAROLE SPANDAU
Your artwork has been featured on the homepage of FAA Gallery Home For All Artists Who Create. Please post your amazing artwork in our` Archive your July Features` discussion.
Len Bomba
A magnificent capture Mike. Well done! Congratulations on your well-deserved features. L/F :)
Bob Lentz
Congratulations! on this dramatic photograph’s being Featured in the new “Landscape, Seascape, and Cityscape Photographs” group on FAA. The artist is invited to add the image to the group’s current “2022 Feature Archive” Discussion topic.
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