On our drive back from Laguna Seca in Monterey California to my dad’s house near Reno, Nevada we again had to drive through the gorgeous El Dorado National Forrest.  You eventually reach an altitude of about 9500 feet before getting down to 4250 feet where my dad’s house is in a town called Gardnerville, NV.  But on the way up and over the mountains is this really nice lake way back off the beaten trail at 8200 feet, you have to take a very windy twisty and sometimes near impassible road to get there, but it’s well worth it.

I would have liked to have been there around sunset, but I didn’t have much of a choice as we were just passing through and had to get to the house.  So, the light is a bit harsh, would love to come back someday and make a trip out of it.  They have some really nice camp grounds right off the shore of the lake on one side.

We had an unusually clear, calm, moonless night here at my girlfriend’s cottage on Keuka Lake the past few days.  Here are a few shots from the past two nights, all taken with the 1D X and Tokina 16-28 f/2.8.  Unfortunately I didn’t have my tripod because I wasn’t expecting the conditions to be like this, so I was propping the camera on objects to get it to stay still.