In short, clouds are few and far between here. Most of California is a desert and what isn't a desert is suffering a drought. Moisture, an essential ingredient for clouds is in short supply. What this means for a photographer (such as myself) that wants to photograph the landscape is that approximately one third of my photographs will be blank. This is not really exciting.
What we do have in the Owens Valley is smoke. Smoke from forest fires on the other side of the Sierras spills over the mountains into the valley. It cuts visibility dramatically. This is also not good from both an artistic and health standpoint. We've adjusted our plans to avoid the smoke by heading farther afield, but that takes a lot more time from the day's activities, namely making photographs. We decided to break camp in Bishop and move to Lee Vining because it was further North and at a higher elevation.
The daily blogs have suffered both because of the added travel time the spottiness of wi-fi coverage and technical limitations. There is only so much time in the day and blogging was taking up too much time. Bummer. I'd like to share the experience as it happens, but it's more important to spend time creating. Next week, you'll hear some good stories.
The other cloud I could really use is a computer cloud. The biggest pain is dealing with the limitations of the trusty iPad when manipulating blog posts. "Working" and doing what I would like to can only happen when I have everything synched up in the cloud. This is something I will be doing after I get back from safari.
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