Winter's return

scole

Having FINALLY received my order of Lee ND Grad filters, I was eager to put them to use. This past week brought the first snows of fall to the Cascades. Forecasts called for continued clouds and chance of snow but, as Saturday morning developed, Mount Baker remained visible. I decided to roll the dice and take my gear up to Heather Meadows at the end of the Mount Baker Highway.

Rather than join the other photographers at Picture Lake, I set out for the saddle that seperates the Bagley Lake basin from the Chain Lakes basin. At the start of the "magic hour," I found myself on the saddle with Mount Baker to my right and Mount Shuksan to my left.

This was one of the best sunsets I've been able to photograph in some time (easily surpassing last week's!). About the time I had decided to head back, the full moon briefly broke through the thickening clouds. A wonderful outing..

1. Fall color and winter snows


2. Approaching the saddle


3. Mount Shuksan


4. Mount Baker and Iceberg Lake below


5. Hadley Peak


6. Alpenglow on Nooksack Ridge (L) and Ruth Mountain (R)


7. Alpenglow on Mount Shuksan


8. Last rays of sunset


9. Glaciers of Mount Baker


10. Moonrise over Ruth Mountain


Thanks for looking..

Dogdots

Beautiful series of photos Did you use the filter for all of them?

scole

Thank you, Mary.

I didn't use the ND filters on every shot. From memory, #1,2,5,10 did not use a ND Grad (but did use a Circ Polarizer). The rest used either the 0.3 or 0.6 ND Grad. Since light changes so quickly during that hour leading up to sunset, I don't remember too much apart from frantically running around trying to set up for each shot!

ront

Beautiful series Steve. I really did enjoy looking at every one of these. Very nice!!

Ron

kdog

Excellent series.

How much hiking did you have to do to get these shots, Steve?

Cheers,
-joel

scole

Appreciate the additional comments.

Joel-

The hike was only about 2 miles in and about 1,200' of elevation gain. I like to keep my hikes out in the dark as short as possible when I'm alone!

Dogdots

scole wrote:

Thank you, Mary.

I didn't use the ND filters on every shot. From memory, #1,2,5,10 did not use a ND Grad (but did use a Circ Polarizer). The rest used either the 0.3 or 0.6 ND Grad. Since light changes so quickly during that hour leading up to sunset, I don't remember too much apart from frantically running around trying to set up for each shot!

Thank you for the information on the filters used

As for the frantic -- I know that feeling