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All photographs and artwork are completely original and copyright Ronald William Horne ® - any unlicensed use or reproduction is illegal and will be prosecuted.
Landscape photos instantly transport us to another place while delivering a visual grandeur that touches our primal DNA.
These photos occur in subject series. The Sierra Nevada mountain range can be seen from multiple perspectives – east and western sides. From the west - the photos series of the Crystal Range Mountains and The Emigrant Gap are taken from my California foothills home. From the east - the desert series were taken en route to Mono Lake which lies on the eastern side of the . The lake photos range from the Desolation Wilderness to Yosemite. Other locations and series are noted in the image descriptions.
Thunderhead over the Crystal Range Mountains, CA
Landscape - Crystal Range Series - The Crystal Mountain Range, a 400 mile long stretch of the Sierra Nevada range, serves as the watershed for Lake Tahoe and the Desolation Wilderness on the other side of this view.
Crysal Range MountainsSierra NevadaDesolation WildernessLake Tahoeron horne
Manzanita Lake Loves Lassen Peak
Manzanita Lake and Lassen Peak, Lassen Volcano National Park, Mill City, CA
Manzanita LakeLassen PeakLassen Volcano National ParkRon Horne
Chaos Crags in Reflection Lake
A cloud topped Chaos Crags is perfectly mirrored in the perfectly named Reflection Lake, Lassen Volcano National Park, CA
Chaos Crags and Lassen Peak embraced by Manzanita Lake
Manzanita Lake sits at the foot of Lassen Peak and Chaos Crags in Lassen Volcano Lassen Park, northern California
Nevada-California Boundary - Boundary Peak
Boundary and Montgomery Peaks which mark the state line boundary between California and Nevada frame the sanstone castles west of Benton Hot Springs on Highway 120.
Boundary PeakMontgomery PeakBenton Hot springsCalifornia Highway 120
From Vegas - Dad's Secret, Surreal Drive Home
Sunset over the Emigrant Gap
Landscape - Emigrant Gap Series - In this composite a winter storm clears as the passing clouds reflect the setting sun. The half-dome-like Cisco Butte marks the mountain pass 'gap' pioneers negotiated to reach the fertile Sacrmento Valley via Donner Lake. A composite.
Morning mists linger in the canyons of the Emigrant Gap
Emigrant Gap Series - it rained all night. The moisture flowed through the canyons like finger of fog as the sun began to break above the horizon. Cisco butte - the half-dome-like peak, rightof center, marks the passage of the trail through 'The Gap' to Donner Lake and the Sierra Nevada mountains.
Sandstone, Snow and Light - Nevada-California Boundary
Snow capped Boundary Peak , which literally marks the boundary between California and Nevada, frames these fascinating sandstone cliffs just outside Benton Hot Springs, CA on a lonely stretch of state highway 120 near Benton Crossing Road. Truly in the middle-of-nowhere with a stark beauty that captures that solitary spirit.
highway 120Benton Hot SpringsBoundary PeakRon Horne
From Vegas - Dad's Secret, Surreal Drive Home
Heavenly Rays - Bridgeport, CA
Bridgeport, CA is a beautiful small town between the Sierra Nevada mountain range and Nevada's Great Desert Basin. Here, the rays of the sun burst through the clouds to highlight the pastoral beauty of the middle ground community.
BridgeportCArays of sunRon Horne
From Vegas - Dad's Secret, Surreal Drive Home
Hunewill Hills Fall Color - Bridgeport, CA
Hunewill Hills frame the popular and aspen trees turning color in late autumn on Conway Summit, California Highway 120.
Conway SummitHunewill HillsCalifornia Highway 120Fall colorRon Horne
From Vegas - Dad's Secret, Surreal Drive Home
Hunewill Hills from Conway Summit - Bridgeport, CA
Hunewill Hills frame the popular and aspen trees turning color in late autumn on Conway Summit, California Highway 120.
Hunewill HillsConway SummitBridgeport Californiafall colorRon Horne
From Vegas - Dad's Secret, Surreal Drive Home
In the Quiet of Winter - Grass Valley, CA
Backyard Series - Taken in Alta Sierra California during a December snowfall, a mature buck and a doe relax in an open patch of forest. While the buck rests, surrounded by several inches of accumulated snow, the doe alertly listens for any sound that pierces the solemn quiet.
In backyard Series with both 'Summer Repose" and "A Winter's Day in the Backyard"
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Winter Search - Grass Valley, CA
Backyard Series - A lone buck searches for a doe - seen in the distant trees - on the morning after a December snow. In Series with both 'Summer Repose" and "A Winter's Day in the Backyard"
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Summer Repose - Grass Valley, CA
Backyard Series - Two does languish in a sea of delicious spring grasses. This scene represents the summer version of "Winter Search." The pair side-by-side tell silent stories from the lives of a local mule deer herd.
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Aeolain Butte from Mono Lake Basin Road
Aeolain Peak viwed from from Mono Lake Basin Road (Mono Lake is directly behind ) framed by the mountain range serving as the the Yosemite watershed.
Aeolain PeakMono LakelandscapeRon Horne
From Vegas - Dad's Secret, Surreal Drive Home
Streaming Light and Mountain Calm - Aeolain Butte, Lee Vining,CA
View of Aeolain Butte from west shore of Mono Lake.
Highway 120Aeolain ButteMono LakeRon Horne
From Vegas - Dad's Secret, Surreal Drive Home
Desert Sand Endless Sky - near Tonopah, NV
Landscape Folder - Highway 6, Nevada-California Border on way to Mono Lake- Nevada Desert Basin on lonely highway 6 leading to Mono Lake. Once a 500 feet deep lake, the broad, seemingly infinite desert basin, stretch hundreds of miles north, south and east of this point..
Sand, Stone and Sky - near Beatty, CA
Along Nevada State Highway 95 one can see explicit examples of the ancient seabeds that formed today's desert basin uplifted vertically in striated bands scoring the surrounding hillsides which rise straight up from the surrounding desert sands.
Nevada State Highway 95Ron Hornedesertdesert basin geology
From Vegas - Dad's Secret, Surreal Drive Home
Fence and Mountains, Bridgeport, CA
Landscape Folder - Bridgeport, CA is a beautiful little town the lies in a sweeping valley nestled in the Sierra Nevada mountain range between the Hoover WIlderness area and the 'ghost town' of Bodie.
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Transition Plateau - near Benton Hot Springs, CA
Highway 120 between Mono Lake and Benton transitions from mountain to desert with long canyons etched into the transformative landscape.
California State Highway 120Benton California
From Vegas - Dad's Secret, Surreal Drive Home
Road to Mountain Mists - Markleeville, CA
California State Highway 89 outside Markleeville and headed into the Carson Iceberg Wilderness.
California State Highway 89Markleeville CaliforniaRon Horne
From Cruisin - photos at 70mph
Mono Lake, Lee Vining, CA
Landscape Series - Mono Lake lies east of Yosemite and the Sierra Nevada moutain range. It marks the beginning of the vast desert Great Basin which spans from Idaho to Arizona. This photo adds space and openness to an office or closed space.
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From FINE ART PRINTS
Fog and Stone - near Markleeville, CA
On highway 89 outside of Markleeville, the morning mists give life to the stone cliffs that surround the local highway.
California Highway 89Markleeville CaliforniaRon Horne
From Cruisin - photos at 70mph
Boundary Peak - Benton, CA
Boundary Peak marks, literally, the divide between Nevada and California.
Boundary PeakCalifornia Nevada BorderCalifornia State Highway 120Ron Horne
From Vegas - Dad's Secret, Surreal Drive Home
Monitor Summit Spring - CA Highway 120
Highway 89's Monitor Summit is the mountain range high point before descending Topaz Lake and the Antelope Valley. Notice the 'backbone' like ridge looking south and the green valleys on either side.
Monitor SummitMonitor PassRon Horne
From Vegas - Dad's Secret, Surreal Drive Home
Miles and Miles from Monitor Summit - CA Highway 120
Monitor Summit marks the exit (CA State highway 89) from the Sierra Nevada mountains down to Antelope Valley and highway 395 to Mono Lake. The summit offers views of the rich valley farmland and the distant peaks of Boundary Peak (center) which marks the state boundary between California and Nevada.
Monitor SummitAntelope ValleyBoundary PeakRonHorneCalifornia State highway 89
From Vegas - Dad's Secret, Surreal Drive Home
Dardanellies Lake, Desolation Wilderness CA
Landscape Folder - Dardanellies is a shallow, warm lake at the foot of a granite dome makes for outstanding swimming and beautiful views as well as the opportunity to climb up the face of the dome. Located in Desolation WIlderness, CA.
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Loch Leven Lake, Nevada County CA
Landscape Folder - Loch Leven Lakes offers three levels of granduer - Lower Loch Leven, Middle Loch Leven and High Lock Leven. Ironically, the lower lake is the highest altitude and High Loch Leven is down hill from Lower and Middle Lock Leven. Go figure.
This is a tributary of the Middle Loch Leven. All three offer great swimming, great campsites and stunning views.
Loch Leven Lakesron horne
The Guardian - Lake Tahoe, CA
Natural History - Landscape Folder - Desolation Wilderness's Granite Lake lies in the foreground beneath this ancient Juniper while Lake Tahoe can be seen in the distance.
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Granite and Tahoe Lakes - Lake Tahoe, CA
The same bristle cone pine from the previous photo taken from a higher altitude. With the Desolation Wilderness's Granite Lake in the foreground, Lake Tahoe in the background frames the picture.
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Chaos Craig Captured in Reflection Lake
Reflection Lake captures a cloud capped Chaos Craig in Lassen Valcano National Park, northern California
Chaos CragsReflection LakeLassen Valcano National ParkRon Horne
Lassen Peak Mirrored in Manzanita Lake
Lassen Peak is Mirrored in Manzanita Lake while Chaos Crags are hidden in the passing clouds, Lassen Volcano National Park, CA
Lassen PeakManzanita LakeLassen Volcano National ParkRon Horne
Veterans Memorial Cemetery - Arvin, CA
Landscape Folder - Veterans Memorial Cemetery for Missing In Action and those serving in Iraq and Afghanistan - located near Bakersfield, near Arvin CA
Veterans Memorial CemeteryBakersfield CAron horne
Final Days - Yosemite CA
Landscape Foler - A lone pine lived its life surviving on the nutrients in the cracks of this granite peak. Here its skeleton still remains standing but collapsed less than a year later.
The Long Branch Saloon, Luning, Nevada - 2005
Retired US Navy Chief Dick Hegg began running the Longbranch Saloon in 1971. This photo was taken in 2005. Dick passed away in 2008. Located in Lunig, NV, whose population varies from 35 to 95 but usually leaning towards the former, the Long Branch remains a small time legend among photographers and historians. For more on the Dick and The Long Branch, visit photographer Larry Angiers site at http://www.angier-fox.com. You’ll also find Larry’s live link in my ‘Link’ Folder.
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Mountain Strata - California-Nevada Border, Benton, CA
Boundary and Montgomery Peak range in the distance mark the California Nevada state borders.
Boundary PeakMontgomery PeakCalifornia Nevada Borderron horne
From Vegas - Dad's Secret, Surreal Drive Home
Bear Valley Sunset II - Emigrant Gap, CA
Landscape Folder - a favored cross country ski route that follows the Bear River near Cisco Butte and the Emigrant Gap. Pioneer wagon trains followed this route in the 1850's. This photo shows the last vestiges of the prior sunset photo.
Morning mist clears to reveal The Emigrant Gap
Commercial - Alta Sierra Folder - Emigrant Gap Series - the pioneer gateway to the Sierra Nevada, The Emigrant Gap as seen from my driveway after the rains.
The Emigrant GapSierra Nevada Ron Horne
Natural History - Landscape Folder - Emigrant Gap Series - a large thunderhead moves over the gap on a hot summer day.
Virga Blessesings - Emigrant Gap , CA
Commercial - Alta Sierra Folder - Emigrant Gap Series - rain showers barely touch the ground but add a sense of cleansing solitude to the landscape of The Gabp.
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Winter Blankets The Gap - Emigrant Gap, CA
Commercial - Alta Sierra Folder - Emigrant Gap Series - a winter storm is barely clearing over The Gap
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Sierra Nevada Crystal Range Series - Storm Over the Mountains
Landscape - Crystal Range Series - A winter storm thunderhead 70 miles wide gathers above the Crystal Range and the Desolation Wilderness to the east.
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Cruisin - Nevada State Highway 95
Nevada State Highway 95 north to Las Vegas. This two lane highway offers hundreds of miles of desolately beautiful desert landscapes.
Nevada State Highway 95DesertRon Horne
From Cruisin - photos at 70mph
Bear Valley Sunset - Emigrant Gap, CA
Landscape Folder - a favored cross country ski route that follows the Bear River near Cisco Butte and the Emigrant Gap. Pioneer wagon trains followed this route in the 1850's.
Commercial - Alta Sierra Folder - Emigrant Gap Series - minutes before the sun breaks over the horizon the skies above The Gap are inflamed with color and anticipation.