Flying Over June Lake

(For the Love of the Eastern Sierra) 

#FTLOTES

For the next two months or so I intend to put up a bunch of these drone flights I did every few weeks. They are simple flights I did last summer with my drone. This was the first one I did during the summer. 

I have shown June Lake before by my drone, but this is one where I covered the whole lake rather than trying to take pictures of the just the lake. This is what I saw when flying to the end of June Lake: Gull Lake! 

Then turning around I looked back on June Lake:

This is looking east to the 395. Whenever I fly my drone at June Lake I have encountered the remains of some nearby fire. There was some haze during this day in the distance in both directions. Had I been here about a week later I might have had clear conditions as you will see with some other drone flights.

Of course, I ended with this shot that I have taken a few times. 

Flying Over June Lake (Youtube Video)

June Lake on June 1st (The Silmaril Series)

In a blog entry a few months ago I uploaded a picture of June Lake I took in the fall. I wanted a picture of that area during the fall season. I mentioned the issue there, and in another picture off the June Lake Loop, is during the fall season the sun is a lot lower in the southern direction as it moves east to west during the day. So, you are either not getting enough sunlight or you are taking pictures into the sunlight. 

I had the opportunity to go back to this area at the beginning of June. I thought I might as well do another drone shot here:

Obviously, there was a lot more light to work with in this picture. I was there roughly the same time of the day as the shot from October.

In a different direction, let me state a few things personally and how the next few months will probably go. From where I am at, it appears that we are getting near the end of lockdowns and issues with Covid. From the beginning I have been massively skeptical of what we are being told about this pandemic. It is kind of the way I feel about global warming. I do accept these things actually exist, but the stats, faulty projections, and responses to them are what put me into skeptical mode. I do not think we will find out the full story of this pandemic for a few years. 

In any case, it does appear things are opening up again and there will be more to do. In the short term, I want to visit as many places locally as possible. Some of the things I want to do are not things that will necessarily show up on the blog, but some will. This is just for my own sanity due to the last two years of my life.  However, in the long term I want to visit a few places out of state that I am currently researching.

So I will probably not have much for the next few months on here. That is pretty typical of how I have been in the past during the summer. Usually I am out somewhere working on some project to show on here during the fall/winter/spring anyways. I do have some completed projects from last year that I have postponed as well. 

Hopefully, you, your family and friends, can get out wherever you are at and start enjoying the real world again. It really is not healthy to be stuck indoors looking at videos screens all day. Turn off the cell phones, tablets, and computers! Get out there again!

June Lake (The Silmaril Series)

Another drone shot I took in October of June Lake:

 The June Lake Loop is great for fall colors. However, one issue is the sun is a little lower in the southern direction at this time of year. So, it is either in the direction of the picture you want to take, or barely comes over the mountain side. In this case, the sun is not high enough to clear the lake so I ended up with some shadow on the left side of the picture. Had I come a few hours later that would change some, but I have been in areas that the later in the season you are the sun barely comes over the canyons.