Clouds have lingered here in the Seattle area well into summer, but this afternoon they finally parted. Even when we get sun on the west side of the Cascade Range, the mountains themselves often hang on to the clouds, keeping the big local volcanoes under wraps.
You can see haze at the bottom of the mountain, slightly darkening the snowy white mountain. That’s smog, and it will typically get thicker as the clear air settles in. The top half of the mountain is still in the clean air, and glows from the later afternoon sunlight.
Taken with the camera and lens I happened to have with me: Sony α1 and Sony 70-200mm. I took quite a few shots with different focal lengths; the image above was at 70mm and the one below was at the other extreme for that lens: 200mm.
In the original, I can see the striations showing the internal structure of the rock:
Boulders, tracks of boulders and avalanches, boundaries between ancient lava flows, rock dust on the snow—all are visible above. The details are a little soft, owing to atmospheric turbulence over the 25 miles or so from where I was to the mountain.