I suppose I should finally come clean before slathering !birding@lemmy.world with yet more field reports from a new location.
The headline picture is an excerpt. My R10 has an inbuilt panorama mode. I'm sure this type of thing is familiar to you, given that the functionality is also built into modern smartphones even though nobody I see standing around at overlooks in that leaned-back-at-the-waist pose desperately pinching at the screens of their iPhones ever appears to remember to use it. It's only mildly irritating on the R10, with a cheesy fake shutter noise it plays through its speaker with every exposure I haven't yet been able to figure out how to turn off and always scares away all the birds.
Posting this engendered some difficulties, one of them expected and one of them not. First off, the original composite weighs in at a rather imposing 20 megabytes. That sort of thing usually causes the upload to choke just by itself. That said, even bitcrushing it a bit as I was already forced to do for the headline presented a new error I've never seen the Lemmy API throw before: "Too wide."
Apparently.
Therefore in order to provide this to you all I had to cheat:
If you're browsing this on mobile and in a portrait orientation, well. I'm very sorry for your loss.
This lake is the largest freshwaster lake in the Sierra Nevadas and is in fact the largest alpine lake anywhere in North America. The corner of the border of California and Nevada is located in the middle of it. About it, Mark Twain had this to say:
The Lake burst upon us — a noble sheet of blue water lifted six thousand three hundred feet above the level of the sea and walled in by a rim of snow-clad mountain peaks that towered aloft full three thousand feet higher still!
As it lay there with the shadows of the mountains brilliantly photographed upon its still surface, I thought it must surely be the fairest picture the whole earth affords.
Yes, it's Lake Tahoe.
