mountains A view from Johnston Ridge Observatory. After 25 years...

After 25 years. This desolate land is slowly rebuilding. This is

the view from 5 miles.

 

Please provide feedback. I am striving to improve.

 

Thanks

Stephen, this is a good landscape of the general vicinity of St. Helens. I would suggest that you explore other compositions, especially by providing a foreground element (boulder, clump of fireweed, seedling, etc.) rather than having the bottom of the image hanging out in space. In addition, you have to be very careful when using a polarizing filter across wide stretches of sky. The sky on the left is polarized, but the sky on the right is not (the sun is to the right). As a result, the intensity of the blue varies too much from left to right. Hope these comments are useful.

Stephen, Thanks for the comments. This was the only good shot I got that day of the mountain. I got dust on my sensor and did not notice until after the trip. I had not noticed the polarizer effect until you mentioned it. As for time of day, it was taken at 2:35pm. Sun was barely to the right of the shot. Off trail access is discouraged here to allow the environment to recover on it's own. This shot was from Johnston Ridge Observatory about 300' above the floor. The next time I go here I will hike the trail to Loowit Falls (about 1.7 miles from the lava dome). I'll watch the polarizer as well... Thanks for your feedback.