Mt. Rainier at Sunset

Timing is everything, sometimes.

Donna and I got home pretty late, just as the sun was setting. I had seen a peak of The Mountain on the way home; I thought I might fire up the drone and get a shot of it close to sunset.

I flew it straight up from the back deck, to about 140 meters. It was hard to see how much detail I was getting (there’s been a lot of smoke out that way), so I just took the shot, took a few more, and then lowered it straight back down to the deck.

I love this shot; this is the Northwest barely sullied by the cities, looking out the southeast were the volcanoes live.

If you click to see the photo full size, you can see a fresh plume of smoke from the Schneider fire east of Rainier. There is smoke left (north) and right (south), but we’ve been lucky in Orting because the wind is from the west. I feel bad for the folks out east who are having to deal with the smoke and fire. It’s a tough world, full of beauty and pain, the way it always has been.