This trip to the E. Sierra I traveled with my wife past the Eureka Valley on another wildflower search. On the road we passed through an area covered with volcanics. We didn't stop until we were on the way back, the wildflowers in this area have not started to bloom yet. The North end of DVNP is much higher than the middle and South end. On the rocks in the canyon areas were many highly colored Lichens. The best contrast was on the black volcanic rocks. I'm posting a regular shot showing the lichen on several rocks and a second in close shot, I was wondering which was better. Olympus E-500 f-8 ISO 100 1/250 First image is the first regular frame shot.
Posted by Robert Dayton on April 5, 2010 at 12:16 AM
It depends what one's purpose is. The first post is relevant as a documentary.
I prefer the second as being more artistic. They're both well done and making
the find is a credit to your attentiveness.
That quite a collection of lichen captured there. I love the way the red/orange stands out against the darker rock with that hint of purple/blue tones. I prefer the closeup version, but think a version of the first zoomed in a little closer to exclude the vegetation and focus only on a few of the rock shapes and lichen would be nice too. Nice find!
The closeup is excellent Paul, nice find. I'm always keen to check out interesting lichen and fungi also and over the years have pointed cameras at that species many times. Tends to grow on some geology more than others. One place particular nice that it likes to grow on is the colorful Permian Period Cutler red beds iron-rich arkose sandstone in the Elephant Canyon area of Canyonlands National Park. And there is alot of those lichen ring formations. Very nice after a thunderstorm deepens saturation.
Posted by Rudy Ruberti on April 8, 2010 at 6:20 PM
Paul,
I prefer the second version here and like the bull’s eye effect. The colorful lichen stands out nicely against the dark basalt. It was nice running into you last week. I may be going up to Mammoth again tomorrow, but I'm still on the fence. How long does it take to get to the Eureka Dunes from Big Pine?
Rudy
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I prefer the second as being more artistic. They're both well done and making
the find is a credit to your attentiveness.
I prefer the second version here and like the bull’s eye effect. The colorful lichen stands out nicely against the dark basalt. It was nice running into you last week. I may be going up to Mammoth again tomorrow, but I'm still on the fence. How long does it take to get to the Eureka Dunes from Big Pine?
Rudy