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Mobius Arch, in California's Alabama Hills State Recreation Area forms a portal to view Lone Pine Peak. Since the 1920's film makers have been using the Alabama Hills as a backdrop for their movies. In the early days of motion pictures films such as "Gunga Din", "How the West Was Won", and "Yellow Sky" were filmed at a site within the recreation area known as "Movie Flats. More recently movies such as "Tremors", "Star Trek Generations," "Gladiator", "Iron Man", and "Django Unchained" were shot in the Alabama Hills.

It all started when I was about 5 or 6 years old and I got my hands on a well used Kodak Brownie Target Six-20. I would wander the neighborhood, carefully selecting the 12 exposures, and then run the roll of black and white 620 film to the Fotomat in the parking lot of the nearby grocery store to get it processed. I eventually progressed to a Kodak 110 Instamatic, that I earned by selling newspaper subscriptions, and then in 1977 my parents gave me an Olympus OM-1 SLR for Christmas. The OM-1 opened up a whole new world for me. It was a real camera and felt solid in my hands, but it was also a completely manual camera. No autofocus. No autoexposure. It forced me to learn the relationship between shutter speeds and f-stops, how to control...