Tufa Reflections
by Mike Lee
Title
Tufa Reflections
Artist
Mike Lee
Medium
Photograph - Digital
Description
This is an image of one of the larger tufa towers 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) which 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. I took a bit of “artistic license” on most of my photos and used a neutral density filter which allowed me to slow my shutter way down. While there wasn’t a great deal of ripple on the water anyway, the longer exposure time removed what little there was and enhanced that “mirror” look.
Uploaded
January 18th, 2022
Statistics
Viewed 2,269 Times - Last Visitor from New York, NY on 04/16/2024 at 5:25 AM
Embed
Share
Sales Sheet
Similar Images
Comments (8)
Luther Fine Art
Congratulations! Your fantastic photographic art has been chosen as a Camera Art Group feature! You are invited to archive your work in the feature archive discussion. There are many other discussions in the group where you can promote your art even further more.
Recently Viewed
