Some random shots from this year

coscorrosa

A collection of shots taken this year (some from this month, some from as early as February) that I haven't posted on dgrin yet, might as well get them out of the way to clean the slate for next year!

Only one of these shots is from a sunset/sunrise, the rest are all at dawn, the afternoon, or at night.

#1: Light Pollution on Mt. Rainier (this was a 10 minute exposure a few hours before dawn, it was very dark I could just barely see the outline of the mountain, it took a few high ISO shots to get the right comp and focus)



#2: Pastel sunset on Ruby Beach



#3: Winter Dawn at Crater Lake



#4: Winter Afternoon at Crater Lake



#5: Dawn in Seattle (from Alki Beach in West Seattle)



#6: Milky Way and a Shooting Star from Mt. Rainier



#7: Americana (the only thing missing from this scene is John Wayne!)



#8: Winter at Mammoth Terraces, Yellowstone



#9: Winter Afternoon at the Tetons

squirl033

great stuff, Ron... love that long exposure shot of Rainier, and the one of Seattle looks like the whole city is on fire!

Doug Solis

Really nice series Ron, I'm really liking both of your images from Crater Lake, beautiful shots.

eoren1

Nice stuff Ron
Agree on the Crater Lake shots.
I like Americana a bit more as I move it up the browser and crop it to a bit more of a pano (that one extra cloud up there bugs me a bit - but I'm likely to be in the minority here )
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denisegoldberg

Very nice. I think my favorite is the afternoon shot at Crater Lake, but they are all beautiful.

--- Denise

Sexy6Chick

Loving every single image but i'm a sucker for #7.

billseye

A beautiful set all around. I'll take #1 and #4 as my favs!

hawkeye978

Great set, Ron, as usual. Love the Crater Lake shots.

dls

Wow. Great set. Faves are Mt. Rainier and Crater Lake shots. And is that bright light in the clouds the sun, or the top of the Columbia Tower?

Marc Muench

That first image of the light pollution could easily be mistaken for sunrise...... if you dont know your orientation!
I really like the comp and the light on that.

schmoo

Nice way to do a final purge, Ron!

Looking forward to your first shots of 2011... from faraway lands

tmelo

All are great shots. I like 1,4 and 8 the best.

bnickeson

Love the pastels in #3! The Milky way is a stunner as well. Just fantastic shots.

coscorrosa

squirl033 wrote: »

great stuff, Ron... love that long exposure shot of Rainier, and the one of Seattle looks like the whole city is on fire!

Thanks! Fortunately it's just on fire with pre-dawn light pollution, much like that Rainier shot Fortunately there weren't 8 million boats in the foreground like there is sometimes.

Doug Solis wrote: »

Really nice series Ron, I'm really liking both of your images from Crater Lake, beautiful shots.

Thanks Doug! That was one of my favorite trips last year, it was really short, afternoon-sunrise and a freezing night sleeping in the car, but worth it as the conditions were wonderful. Snowshoes got a little workout too!

eoren1 wrote: »

Nice stuff Ron
Agree on the Crater Lake shots.
I like Americana a bit more as I move it up the browser and crop it to a bit more of a pano (that one extra cloud up there bugs me a bit - but I'm likely to be in the minority here )
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I definitely agree that a pano crop would work here, would I would like even more is if I panned the shot slightly to the right and cut out some of that dead space on the left of the first horse (I could do a pano crop on that too - best of both worlds). I'll have to see if I have another shot with that composition, it's possible I couldn't do it because there was something distracting on the right but I don't remember anymore

denisegoldberg wrote: »

Very nice. I think my favorite is the afternoon shot at Crater Lake, but they are all beautiful.

--- Denise

Thanks Denise! That was my first view of Crater Lake in 20 years (I was 10 the first time I was there) - definitely worth the wait.

Sexy6Chick wrote: »

Loving every single image but i'm a sucker for #7.

Thanks, I was pretty excited when I saw the horses lined up like that.

billseye wrote: »

A beautiful set all around. I'll take #1 and #4 as my favs!

Thanks!

hawkeye978 wrote: »

Great set, Ron, as usual. Love the Crater Lake shots.

Thanks - hopefully I'll be able to visit Crater Lake before winter is out this year. It's really a unique setting and looks amazing in person with all that snow. Just a little chilly and the drive has the potential to be interesting

coscorrosa

dls wrote: »

Wow. Great set. Faves are Mt. Rainier and Crater Lake shots. And is that bright light in the clouds the sun, or the top of the Columbia Tower?

Thanks - that's the top of the Columbia Tower

Marc Muench wrote: »

That first image of the light pollution could easily be mistaken for sunrise...... if you dont know your orientation!
I really like the comp and the light on that.

Thanks Marc! I have a three minute exposure taken a few minutes later (ISO 500 f/4, still really dark) and there's clearly pink glow on the mountain, just like at sunrise. I've seen that there before too (pink glow well before dawn that disappears at dawn, and then reappears at sunrise). Not sure what's going on. But I'm not complaining

schmoo wrote: »

Nice way to do a final purge, Ron!

Looking forward to your first shots of 2011... from faraway lands

Final purge sounds disgusting and yet oddly appropriate at the same time I'm in Zion right now surrounded by snow and sandstone, so I'm not quite ready to say goodbye to 2010 just yet (I can't say the same for my camera!)

tmelo wrote: »

All are great shots. I like 1,4 and 8 the best.

Thanks!

bnickeson wrote: »

Love the pastels in #3! The Milky way is a stunner as well. Just fantastic shots.

Hopefully someday in the future camera sensors will be good enough so that Milky Way shots will be a lot easier with a lot less noise. It's always cool seeing it in person though.

ThatCanonGuy

I love #5, the long exposure, the water just looks perfect and the clouds look really good. Are these blended exposures?

PGM

All just beautiful, and the way you took #1 is most interesting! What a great year you had!