Alabama Hills, California
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Alabama Hills are a "range of hills" and rock formations near the eastern slope of the Sierra Nevada Mountains in the Owens Valley, west of Lone Pine in Inyo County, California.
Incredible beautiful rock formation is a great place for photographer to unleash his imagination. Behind rounded rocks with incredible shape is covered with ice and snow 15,000 feet high, range of Sierra Nevada Mountains.Early in the morning the sun paints Mt .Whitney in golden orange colors and give photographers un numerous opportunities for photography.
Besides photographers, movie makers still enjoys this amazing area.The Alabama Hills are a popular filming location for television and movie productions, especially Westerns set in an archetypical "rugged" environment. Since the early 1920s, 150 movies and about a dozen television shows have been filmed here, including Tom Mix films, Hopalong Cassidy films, The Gene Autry Show, and The Lone Ranger. Classics such as Gunga Din, Springfield Rifle,"The Violent Men" (1955 film), Bad Day at Black Rock' (1955), the Budd Boetticher/Randolph Scott "Ranown" westerns, How the West Was Won.
More recent productions such as Tremors and Joshua Tree, were filmed at "movie ranch" sites known as Movie Flats and Movie Flat Road. In Gladiator, actor Russell Crowe rides a horse in front of the Alabamas, with Mount Whitney in the background, for a scene presumably set in Spain. Star Trek Generations was filmed here in addition to Overton, Nevada and Paramount Studios. This range was one of the filming locations for Disney's Dinosaur. More recently, many parts of the films Iron Man and Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen were filmed here.
Alabama Hills,California, as seen by Landscape Photographer Boris Borisov.Lathe Arch, Nobius Arch, and Movie Road at night.