Mt. Rainier...or Is that Valhalla?

Remarkable sunset lighting ignites Mt. Rainier.

I saw that the skies were clearing to the east, the direction of Mt. Rainier, so I headed out to an overlook to try to get a shot of the mountain.

(I stopped closer to home where I got a partial view, just in case, will put that in a later post.)

About a mile from the overlook, through trees, I caught a glance of the mountain and clouds were moving in fast. By the time I got to my position, the mountain was mostly obscured. I chatted with another guy who had stopped to get a picture, and just as I was getting back in my car, he shouted, “There’s your shot!”

I got out, and took this shot handheld between the tress. Talk about good luck - a helping hand, and a great little sunset trick of the lighting.

Prior to the sunset revelation of a mountain peak on fire, I got this series of shots which I assembled into a panorama. It has the same kind of lighting, but a completely different feeling.

All of the exposures were at f/2 with the Sony 70-200mm II lens. Exposures were 1/500th second at ISO 100.