Fall at Mount Shuksan and Baker
ksproul
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I'm finally catching up on editing some photos from a couple of weeks ago when I drove up to the Mount Baker area. Here are some photos from Picture Lake and Artist Point. Comments and criticism would be appreciated, especially since some of these are a different style from anything I've posted before. Thanks!
01. Mount Shuksan from Picture Lake in the late afternoon:
02. Mount Shuksan from Picture Lake in the late afternoon:
03. Mount Baker from Artist Point a little before sunset:
04. Mount Shuksan from Artist Point at sunset:
05. Mount Shuksan from Artist Point just after sunset:
06. Foggy valley from Artist Point at dusk:
07. Stars over Mount Shuksan from Artist Point:
08. The Milky Way over Mount Baker from Artist Point:
01. Mount Shuksan from Picture Lake in the late afternoon:
02. Mount Shuksan from Picture Lake in the late afternoon:
03. Mount Baker from Artist Point a little before sunset:
04. Mount Shuksan from Artist Point at sunset:
05. Mount Shuksan from Artist Point just after sunset:
06. Foggy valley from Artist Point at dusk:
07. Stars over Mount Shuksan from Artist Point:
08. The Milky Way over Mount Baker from Artist Point:
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Thank you very much! While it may not be super original, I had been wanting to get my own version of that classic Mount Shuksan shot for a while, and on this trip there (my second in two weeks), the weather was ideal and the fall colors were blazing, so it worked out nicely.
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Thank you!
Thanks, I appreciate it! Yeah, I believe that was a shooting star in #7. I was actually seeing them every few minutes up there. The amount of stars you can see there on a clear night is amazing!
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Thanks! I had no choice but to shoot the Picture Lake shots in the late afternoon if I wanted to get all of the foliage in the sunlight. Shortly after I took this, much of the foliage across the lake was in the shadows due to the sun going behind the hills and mountains to my back. It was also creeping up the foliage in the foreground, just below the bottom of this image.
What this image doesn't convey is the other 10-15 photographers with tripods all standing close by. It was funny to listen to the sound of all the shutters going off in unison when all the conditions came together (mainly a perfectly calm lake coupled with nobody walking on the trail on the other side of the lake).
On another note, which composition do you guys like better of the two Picture Lake shots (1 and 2)? I'm leaning toward the first one with some stuff in the foreground, but part of me likes the simplicity of the second one. Thoughts?
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Thanks! That's what I was thinking as well.
I appreciate that! We certainly have some beautiful areas around here. I went out doing some kind of photography trip almost every weekend this summer, and I was rarely more than a few hours away from my home in Olympia. I've lived here for about two and a half years now, and I feel like I've barely scratched the surface as far as all the stuff there is to see.
Thank you! I hadn't been to Artist Point before a few weeks ago. It's a beautiful place. I really liked the whole area. To me, it has a very different feel from the Mount Rainier area, where I've been way more often. I definitely intend to go back whenever I can. I'd love to check the area out in the winter, depending on how accessible it is.