Limestone Reflections

by Mike Lee

Title

Limestone Reflections

Artist

Mike Lee

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Photograph - Digital Photography

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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.

𝘛𝘩𝘪𝘴 𝘴𝘵𝘳𝘪𝘬𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘪𝘮𝘢𝘨𝘦 𝘰𝘧 𝘔𝘰𝘯𝘰 𝘓𝘢𝘬𝘦’𝘴 𝘵𝘶𝘧𝘢 𝘵𝘰𝘸𝘦𝘳𝘴 𝘪𝘴 𝘪𝘥𝘦𝘢𝘭 𝘧𝘰𝘳 𝘯𝘢𝘵𝘶𝘳𝘦 𝘦𝘯𝘵𝘩𝘶𝘴𝘪𝘢𝘴𝘵𝘴, 𝘨𝘦𝘰𝘭𝘰𝘨𝘺 𝘭𝘰𝘷𝘦𝘳𝘴, 𝘰𝘳 𝘢𝘴 𝘢 𝘮𝘦𝘴𝘮𝘦𝘳𝘪𝘻𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘢𝘥𝘥𝘪𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯 𝘵𝘰 𝘢 𝘴𝘦𝘳𝘦𝘯𝘦, 𝘮𝘪𝘯𝘪𝘮𝘢𝘭𝘪𝘴𝘵𝘪𝘤, 𝘰𝘳 𝘮𝘰𝘥𝘦𝘳𝘯 𝘴𝘱𝘢𝘤𝘦. 𝘗𝘦𝘳𝘧𝘦𝘤𝘵 𝘧𝘰𝘳 𝘵𝘩𝘰𝘴𝘦 𝘸𝘪𝘵𝘩 𝘧𝘰𝘯𝘥 𝘮𝘦𝘮𝘰𝘳𝘪𝘦𝘴 𝘰𝘧 𝘔𝘰𝘯𝘰 𝘓𝘢𝘬𝘦 𝘰𝘳 𝘵𝘳𝘢𝘷𝘦𝘭𝘦𝘳𝘴 𝘥𝘳𝘢𝘸𝘯 𝘵𝘰 𝘪𝘵𝘴 𝘶𝘯𝘪𝘲𝘶𝘦 𝘢𝘵𝘮𝘰𝘴𝘱𝘩𝘦𝘳𝘦. 𝘈𝘯 𝘦𝘹𝘤𝘦𝘭𝘭𝘦𝘯𝘵 𝘨𝘪𝘧𝘵 𝘧𝘰𝘳 𝘩𝘰𝘮𝘦𝘴, 𝘰𝘧𝘧𝘪𝘤𝘦𝘴, 𝘰𝘳 𝘦𝘷𝘦𝘯 𝘤𝘢𝘣𝘪𝘯 𝘳𝘦𝘵𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘵𝘴.

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January 21st, 2022

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