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Grass Valley Recon Gallery

Bob Scott lenticulars. Sunset on weak lenticulars rolling over the northern Toiyabe, cold night ahead at Bob Scott Campground. 1/100, f9, ISO 200
Cloud play. Light plays in the clouds of a fading storm over Bob Scott Summit. 1/1000, f5, ISO 200.
Standing stone. weathered plutonic rocks of Grass Valley, NV. 1/200, f8, ISO 100.
Rooted stone. This reminded me of the power of trees, rooted in a forest. I wandered among this odd outcrop of plutonic, granitic rocks, shooting hand-held. 1/400, f8, ISO 100.
Strat texture.
Watchers. 1/2500, f4, ISO 100.
Callaghan gold. Mt. Callaghan, northern Toiyabe Range. The haze of a dusty sky made the foreground slopes glow in the late afternoon sun and I enjoyed the pattern of snow in the gullies and alcoves off the summit. 1/50, f14, ISO 100,
Simpson Park snow. 1/2500, f4, ISO 100.
Lucky weld. Something completely different, for good luck. 1/50, f8, ISO 100.

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