Majestic

Early this morning I was on a flight from Seattle WA to Reno NV. This route is always spectacular when the weather is clear as you can see all the mountains from Rainier shown above. As we were climbing out of the Seattle area I knew the possibility of a really nice side shot of the mountain may exist. We were on the shadow side though which provides a different view of a traditional mountain shot.

The image below is of Mt. Hood southeast of Portland OR. We were somewhat higher and on the sunny side of the mountain. This angle though provides some interesting lines due to the time

of day. It was 7:15 pacific and as you can see form the long shadow, the sun was still working its way up in the sky. It really gives good definition to the ridges in the mountain.

Below is another shot of the same intro image only in B&W. I figured I would go Ansel Adams seeing as how our route of flight was going to take us over his infamous shooting grounds.

Tomorrow I am going to try and give an evaluation of Lightroom 3 as I have been using the fully released version of it for the bast few days.

For now though, take care... Doug