Cold Mountain: Devils Postpile (View in large)

Devils Postpile National Monument is located near Mammoth Mountain in

in eastern California. This photo was taken around 4.30am on1

November 2013. Getting to this location was not trivial. Due to a

two-day snowfall prior to our trip, the road towards to this place was

closed. We had to hike a whole day on the snow from Horseshoe Lake to

get there.

Making this image was also technical challenging. This image was a

result of 14 photos stitching together, that presents a 150 degree

very wide perspective including the entire Devils Postpile landscape,

that is beyond our naked eyes, but I still manage to display this

image in a 3:2 ratio.

Thanks, for viewing this image.

I'd say it was worth all the work. Well done in every respect.

This picture is amazing, Yan Zhang.  Thank you very much for sharing it and for the comments accompanying the image.  The effort was worth it, because the result is really good. 

Regards,

Rosario.

This is a wonderful accomplishment. Do you know what is causing the glow from behind the central treeline? I wonder if it might be the elusive zodiacal light. If so then this image is even more impressive.

Fantastic!

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Dear Patric,

thanks for the comment and also pointed the glow behind the mountain. I was not aware what the light was when I was in the field, but I captured it in several shots, each showed such glow behind the mountain. I just searched Internet about zodiacal light. Now I think it was indeed zodiacal light.

Yan, I think you should submit this image to Astronomy Photo of the Day (http://apod.nasa.gov) with your explanation provided here, and specify that this is zodiacal light. They can confirm it for you, and also they would post this on their site (a new photo every day and they have a HUGE following). Good luck with that, and congratulations on this accomplishment!

Great photo.. Very nice.!