5:22 PM. After a quick supper in Lee Vining, I returned to the south shore of Mono Lake, hoping for some good light...but it was iffy. I was looking for something different and decided to shoot the 'sand tufas' over on Navy Beach, about a 1/2 mile away from the South Tufa field I shot earlier in the afternoon. These little structures proved very difficult to photograph, as they lie within a hollow blown free of sand a couple hundred yards from the lake shore. A satisfactory or interesting horizon is difficult, or impossible, to come by! I shot mostly at about knee-level, to give these little tufa towers some much needed perspective...
1/20 sec, f/16. Contrast was locally increased on the tufas in the right-hand side of the image.