Pretty realistic placement of the Milky Way, but it was taken 45 minutes and from a different tripod location before the foreground images were taken.
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Pretty realistic placement of the Milky Way, but it was taken 45 minutes and from a different tripod location before the foreground images were taken.
The Los Angeles Aqueduct near Lone Pine California in 35mm Black and White shot on a Nikon FG20
Near Lone Pine California.
The Alabama Hills are a popular filming location for television and movie productions, especially Westerns set in an archetypical rugged, isolated milieu. The first known movies to be filmed there are the lost films Water, Water Everywhere and Cupid, the Cowpuncher, both shot in 1919 and released in early 1920. The oldest surviving film shot in the hills is The Round-Up (1920), starring Roscoe "Fatty" Arbuckle, which includes a cameo from his friend, Buster Keaton.[10]
Since then, hundreds of movies have been filmed there, including: Gunga Din, The Walking Hills, Yellow Sky, Springfield Rifle, The Violent Men, Bad Day at Black Rock, the Budd Boetticher/Randolph Scott "Ranown" cycle, How the West Was Won, Joe Kidd, Saboteur, and Django Unchained, Tremors, Iron Man, and The Monolith Monsters.
Among the television shows that have been shot there are The Gene Autry Show, The Lone Ranger, Bonanza, and Annie Oakley.[11]
In Lone Pine, the closest town to the Alabama Hills, the Lone Pine Film History Museum explores the area's relationship to the art of cinema. Exhibits include the Dr. King Schultz dentist wagon from Quentin Tarantino's Django Unchained, the 1937 Plymouth Humphrey Bogart drove in Raoul Walsh's High Sierra.[12] and a Graboid underground monster from Tremors.
Every Fall the Museum hosts the Lone Pine Film Festival, which bills itself as "the only film festival on location", because festival-goers watch films shot in the area and then take tours to see the very spots where the scenes were filmed.
Source: Wikipedia
The Alabama Hills serve as a gateway to Mount Whitney and the Eastern Sierra Nevada, and are managed by the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) as the Alabama Hills National Scenic Area.
Sunset
Alabama Hills
Inyo County
California
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Alabama Hills
Lone Pine
California
Though geographically considered a range of hills, the Alabama Hills are geologically a part of the Sierra Nevada mountains.
If you have an active imagination, you may find a seven-toed right foot among these weathered granite stones, or a four-toed left foot.
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A colorful display of native plants and wildflowers in the Alabama Hills at the base of Mount Whitney and Lone Pine Peak in the Eastern Sierra at sunrise.
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