Mt. Rainier--Up Close and Personal

A photo from about seven miles out from the peak.

The photo above is a crop from a larger panoramic photograph. A tiny crop: the full photograph would be about 6 feet by 16 feet if printed at high resolution. How does one take such a massive photograph, you ask?

Well, one way would be a massive camera with a huge sheet of film. Another would be to use a digital camera and to pan it up and down and side to side to take a series of three rows of eight images each, and then assemble them into a panorama in software.

Here’s the full scene, but very small compared to full size, of course:

For that matter, the top photo is not full size either; this is just not a web-sized photograph.

The shots were taken from a clear spot about halfway between Carbonado, WA and the peak. The last six miles or so are a heavily rutted and pot-holed dirt road; I took the Jeep (see below).

No real stuff to provide foreground interest, so…Jeep. This made my wife Donna very happy—if her Jeep is happy, Donna is happy.

The panorama was shot with a Canon EF 200mm f/2 lens at f/2.8 (with Fringer EF-GF adapter). The Jeep+mountain photo was shot with a Fuji GF 20-35mm lens at 29mm. The camera for both was the Fuji GFX 100S II - a terrific camera for landscape.