Mt. Rainier's Cloudy Cloak
Too much alliteration? Shrouded by clouds and partly hidden by trees, Mt. Rainier looks like an ice cream cone...
I was a bit awestruck by this shot as soon as I looked through the camera viewfinder. The mountain looks to close, so clear.
Sony α1 camera with Zeiss Otus 100mm f/1.4 lens, shot at f/2.8, 1/1000th of a second, ISO 100.
I also shot some offset photos, and combined them to make a panorama. The mountain looks a little less like a confection, but it is a truly serene evening view, one of the great pleasures of living in the Pacific Northwest. It’s a small leap to think that anyone could have once felt that these big volcanoes were gods; in some ways, they still stir the imagination in exactly the same way.
It was a little bit darker when I shot the panorama, so the exposures were one stop slower (1/500th second). The location was the parking lot of a newly constructed church in Bonney Lake, WA, above the town of South Prairie. The trees hide a multitude of farms and homes…the area is not quite as pristine as it looks.