#SCENERY PICTURES OF CALIFORNIA MOVIE#
Whitney Portal Road (closed in winter) ends about 11 miles beyond Movie Road, at Whitney Portal, the trailhead for the hike to Mt. But unless there are clouds to soften the light, you’ll find that the harsh morning light will end your shoot pretty quickly after the sunlight arrives on the Alabama Hills.
Soon after, the light will turn amber and slowly slide down the peaks until it reaches your location, warming the nearby boulders and casting dramatic long shadows. The grand finale from anywhere in the Alabama Hills is the rose alpenglow that colors the Sierra crest just before sunrise. Following the marked trail down the ravine, the arch is an easy quarter-mile walk. To get to Mobius Arch, drive 1.6 miles on Movie Road to the dirt parking area at the trailhead. It’s a good place to start, but settling for this frequently photographed subject risks missing numerous opportunities for truly unique images here. Mobius Arch (also called Whitney Arch and Alabama Hills Arch) is the most popular photo spot in the Alabama Hills. If you’re struck by a vague sense of familiarity here, it’s probably because for nearly a century the Alabama Hills has attracted thousands of movie, television and commercial film crews. After 3 miles, turn right onto Movie Road and start exploring. To reach the Alabama Hills, drive west on Whitney Portal Road (the only signal in Lone Pine). The Alabama Hills are traversed by a network of unpaved but generally quite navigable roads. Whitney (the highest point in the 48 contiguous states) and the serrated Sierra crest in the background takes the beauty to another level. Named for a Confederate Civil War warship, the Alabama Hills’ jumble of weathered granite boulders and proliferation of natural arches would be photogenic in any setting. Just west of Lone Pine lies the Alabama Hills. 395 bisects the Owens Valley, a flat, arid plane separating the Sierra Nevada to the west from the Inyo ranges to the east. Regardless of the time of day, the key to photographing California’s Eastern Sierra is flexibility-if you don’t like the light in one direction, you usually don’t need to travel far to find a nice scene in another direction. The eastern Sierra is also home to some of California’s finest night photography. Without clouds, eastern Sierra sunset light can be tricky, as you’ll be photographing the shady side of the mountains against the brightest part of the sky. I prefer photographing most eastern Sierra locations at sunrise, when the day’s first rays paint the mountains with warm light and the highest peaks are colored rose by alpenglow. Long a favored escape for hikers, hunters and fishermen, Sierra’s sunrise side has in recent years come to be appreciated by photographers for its rugged, solitary beauty. Whitney and the Alabama Hills, the ancient bristlecones of the White Mountains, the granite columns of Devil’s Postpile, Mono Lake and its tufa towers, and too many lake-dotted, aspen-lined canyons to count. 395 between Lone Pine and Lee Vining: Mt. It would be difficult to find any place in the world with a more diverse selection of natural beauty than the 120-mile stretch of U.S.
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