Sawtooth Range - Idaho

TreyHoff · November 10, 2010

Got up at 4:00am and drove to Stanley to photograph the Sawtooths. It was 18 degrees when I started hiking and 33 degrees when I returned home. Thanks for looking!

Alpenglow on Mt. Heyburn

Early morning light on the Sawtooth Range reflected in Little Redfish Lake. I photographed Mt. Heyburn (previous photo) from the farthest sunlit hill across the lake.

Then I drove on a back country road to get a higher elevation view of the westerly range.

I shot this on the way out.

jamesl · November 10, 2010

Awesome images and wonderful light. That area of the country is some of my favorite!

zoomer · November 10, 2010

I have almost the exact same picture as your first one on the wall right next to me at work, love that mountain and yours is a very nice shot of it.
I really like the second one also...to bad it was not one of those dead calm morning....or did you have problems with the beavers slapping their tails

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Only nit is the skies look to dark, lighten them up a bit and these are money.

Great stuff well worth the drive. Were the roads clear?

dlplumer · November 10, 2010

Beautiful set. Really love the first one.

Fishead · November 10, 2010

very nice images!

Oobers · November 10, 2010

Great shots, the last 2 are my favourites.

Bryans12v · November 10, 2010

Lovely set!!

clap

Makes me want to jump on a plane!!

ront · November 10, 2010

WOW, you have some amazing pictures here!! The light was just phenomenal!! I enjoyed these a lot!

Ron

jeepr · November 10, 2010

Well done

~Mandy

PilotBrad · November 10, 2010

Stunning!

Sexy6Chick · November 10, 2010

Every one of them is stunning! Beautiful landscapes.

coscorrosa · November 10, 2010

Awesome series! I really need to head out there one of these days. I'm planning a 4AM voyage to a snowy Rainier tomorrow - hopefully it will work out like your shots did.

TreyHoff · November 10, 2010

jamesl wrote: »

Awesome images and wonderful light. That area of the country is some of my favorite!

Thanks, I'm getting hooked on the Sawtooths

zoomer wrote: »

I really like the second one also...to bad it was not one of those dead calm morning....or did you have problems with the beavers slapping their tails . Only nit is the skies look to dark, lighten them up a bit and these are money. Great stuff well worth the drive. Were the roads clear?

Zoomer, you mean like this one? I didn't post this photo earlier cause I screwed up on the aperture setting and the mountains turned out fuzzy, but here it is. Yeah, the skies are quite blue

The roads were clear.

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dlplumer wrote: »

Beautiful set. Really love the first one.

Thanks Dan!

Fishead wrote: »

very nice images!

Thanks Fishead

Oobers wrote: »

Great shots, the last 2 are my favourites.

Thanks!

Bryans12v wrote: »

Lovely set!! clap
Makes me want to jump on a plane!!

I really just got turned on to the sawtooths this fall and now I'm hooked. Headed back up there on Friday!!!

ront wrote: »

WOW, you have some amazing pictures here!! The light was just phenomenal!! I enjoyed these a lot!
Ron

Thanks Ront!

jeepr wrote: »

Well done
~Mandy

Thank you.

PilotBrad wrote: »

Stunning!

Thanks!

Sexy6Chick wrote: »

Every one of them is stunning! Beautiful landscapes.

Thank you very much.

I really appreciate all the nice comments.

TreyHoff · November 10, 2010

coscorrosa wrote: »

Awesome series! I really need to head out there one of these days. I'm planning a 4AM voyage to a snowy Rainier tomorrow - hopefully it will work out like your shots did.

Thanks Ron. The trip should be great! Hope the weather is good for you. Looking forward to seeing your photos.

Travel · November 10, 2010

Really beautiful! I like #2 best but they are all really nice!

Enlightphoto · November 11, 2010

For sure, those first two are real bell ringers! Extremely nice.

zoomer · November 11, 2010

What I mean is it appears like the filter used to even out your exposure for the sky was a little to dark and the effect could be graduated more.

Just nitpicking, such great photos, just trying to help them be the best they can be

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squirl033 · November 11, 2010

gorgeous! love the shot of Heyburn, and the one taken alongside highway 75 is excellent. i really need to get back over there again one of these days... i spent a week at Redfish Lodge in early September in 2007, but there were so many fires back up in the mountains that the smoke ruined the photo ops. i want to shoot McGown Peak and Stanley Lake, too...

TreyHoff · November 11, 2010

Travel wrote: »

Really beautiful! I like #2 best but they are all really nice!

Thanks!

Enlightphoto wrote: »

For sure, those first two are real bell ringers! Extremely nice.

Thanks Gary

zoomer wrote: »

What I mean is it appears like the filter used to even out your exposure for the sky was a little to dark and the effect could be graduated more.

Just nitpicking, such great photos, just trying to help them be the best they can be .

Yeah, on the third photo, I used a .9 grad and I had the polarizer turned up a bit too much

squirl033 wrote: »

gorgeous! love the shot of Heyburn, and the one taken alongside highway 75 is excellent. i really need to get back over there again one of these days... i spent a week at Redfish Lodge in early September in 2007, but there were so many fires back up in the mountains that the smoke ruined the photo ops. i want to shoot McGown Peak and Stanley Lake, too...

I did drive out to Stanley Lake and hiked 1/2 mile to the meadow for a full-on view of McGowan, but the light just wasn't hitting it very well. Sometimes the effort doesn't yield a thing, but the experience is still well worth it. Thanks

snowman1 · November 11, 2010

Very nice photos, great lighting,

Doug

http://dougsphotos.smugmug.com/

PGM · November 11, 2010

The light in that first photo is so striking! Beautiful set!

CanonFan · November 12, 2010

Breathtaking! I live to experience those moments , through the viewfinder!

schmoo · November 12, 2010

Incredible! I have wanted to hit up and explore Idaho for quite a while now as I'm convinced it's completely underrated and holds many worthwhile photo ops. This just proves it. Nice job

Doug Solis · November 12, 2010

Great shots you have here. I really love the first image, perfect name for these hills. Spectacular shot. Well worth your efforts.

TreyHoff · November 12, 2010

snowman1 wrote: »

Very nice photos, great lighting,
http://dougsphotos.smugmug.com/

Thanks.

PGM wrote: »

The light in that first photo is so striking! Beautiful set!

Thank you. I set up the tripod just as the sun was coming up from the east. I really had to hustle to get up the hill to take the photo. I was out of breath and I kept fogging up the view finder, so I held my breath while shooting as the misty clouds kept changing form

I didn't know what I was going to get, but I was very happy the way the light hit the mountain when the clouds opened up.

CanonFan wrote: »

Breathtaking! I live to experience those moments , through the viewfinder!

Thanks! I'm starting to feel that way too, especially after witnessing such beauty.

schmoo wrote: »

Incredible! I have wanted to hit up and explore Idaho for quite a while now as I'm convinced it's completely underrated and holds many worthwhile photo ops. This just proves it. Nice job

Thanks Schmoo....Come on out! There are so many different areas in Idaho to photograph from the southern desert canyons, Sawtooth and Whitecloud Mountains, Snake River, Shoshone Falls, the northern Palouse, Hell's Canyon, to name a few, but right now I'm hooked on the Sawtooths! Heading back up there tomorrow!

Doug Solis wrote: »

Great shots you have here. I really love the first image, perfect name for these hills. Spectacular shot. Well worth your efforts.

Thanks. There are some incredible "sawtooth" mountain peaks beyond Mt. Heyburn, but you've got to hike into the Sawtooth Mountains to see them. I'll be there next summer!

Sawtooth Range - Idaho

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