The Devil's Backbone
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Lee Wiren
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Thanks... this view has so much potential! While there I met another photographer who took me 2 blocks up (albeit along the side of the road in the bike path) and showed me a different, wider point of view without tree's getting in the way of the backbone.... I plan to hit this spot often as it is only about an 80 minute drive from my house and not often visited by large crowds of folks.
The view of the mountain is dead on due east... I am thinking that during the winter months with a light snow the setting sun will add a lot of fire along the backbone... and with some stormy clouds, it would make quite the dramatic setting for the name implied.....add a couple of lightening strikes and it could be a doozy of a shot! Ahhhh, to dream and envision....
Cheers
Lee
Thinking like a photographer! Lucky only hour and half drive from you! Just beautiful shot and I am sure with varying season and conditions, you can get many many keepers!
Having said that, I don't see anything devilish here at all....only beauty....maybe my own dark soul is the problem.
Darkness appreciates it's reflection?
When I post this location the next time, I will try to make it a true pano.... when you see the ridges of hills from north to south and the shape they make, you can see why the pioneers of the Oregon Trail named the view the Devil's backbone.... This viewpoint overlooks the land that was the first homestead of the area in the mid 1800's by the Revenue family. The land seen in the photo was near the end of the Sam Barlow trail that was carved through Oregon so that families did not have to use the Columbia River to get to The Dalles and beyond.... a fellow by the name of Sam Barlow and a partner created a trail and charged to take groups of pioneers on it through the Mt Hood wilderness and deposit them in the valley on the other side.... The Revenue family got here to Sandy, Oregon and set up a homestead to greet weary travelers and offer a stopping point along their travels... eventually setting up a small community with school while travelers rested during the winter months and made their way on after that.
Interesting history along the Oregon trail (sorry to bore you). But the view of the whole range does kind of look like a spine..... I fear that moving my point of view will lose my river view, but offer me more fog in the trees with the outline of the spine in a larger pano.....
The bright sky in the upper left really draws the eye out of the frame. I'd consider using your favorite techinque to burn/darken/fill that patch of sky, or just crop it out.