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  2. JULY AND AUGUST, 2012: NM and WA trip

WA V: MOUNT RAINIER I

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FIRST:  A few photos from Chelan, prior to us starting down to Mount Rainier.  Here is a view from near our Chelan house in the early morning, looking down at the interesting (very LONG) shadows cast by a row of poplar trees near the lake.
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FIRST: A few photos from Chelan, prior to us starting down to Mount Rainier. Here is a view from near our Chelan house in the early morning, looking down at the interesting (very LONG) shadows cast by a row of poplar trees near the lake.

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  • FIRST:  A few photos from Chelan, prior to us starting down to Mount Rainier.  Here is a view from near our Chelan house in the early morning, looking down at the interesting (very LONG) shadows cast by a row of poplar trees near the lake.
  • And then Bri made some pasta!  If you have never had Bri's pasta, it is DELICIOUS!  In fact, it is delicious whether YOU have had any or not, come to think of it.
  • All arranged and ready to go into the boiling water.
  • We are several miles away here, and this is apparently before the smoke from the Ellensberg fire made it to the area.
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  • A basalt column wall along White Pass.  These formed when a lava flow met a barrier and cooled.  As lava cools and solidifies, it shrinks.  This shrinkage as it condenses from liquid to solid form causes fractures to form, very similar to the fractures which form as a large area of mud dries into solid, dry clay, except that in lava the fractures can extend the entire thickness of a very thick flow, and can create these very long palisades.   (Yep, Zac:  You were right).
  • Much closer to Mount Rainier, and later in the day.  Fires around Ellensberg have sent smoky haze our way.  Also, we are northeast of Mount Rainier, so the sun and Rainier are in the same direction, allowing the hazy air to scatter light from that direction tremendously.
  • At the parking area at Sunrise (I'm referring to a location, not the time of day).  Zac is looking at some Lupine.
  • Asters.
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  • Heading up toward Antler Peak.  In the shot where I zoom back from the lupine, notice how much I have to under-expose the rest of the shot before you can even see Mount Rainier.  Pretty challenging day for pictures.  A lot of the time we could just barely see Mount Rainier on this day.
  • That's my daughter!  Getting in for the right angle.
  • Sunrise Visitor Center area down below.
  • Shadows of the Four Amigos.
  • Western anemone, in the seeding stage.
  • Phlox.
  • Lupine.
  • An ant and shadow on Lupine.  Actually, this is just a cropped image of the last photo.  Now go back and see:  Can you find the ant and shadow in the previous photo?
  • nelli

    on October 10, 2012

    Superlative!

  • OptimImagery

    on October 10, 2012

    Thanks!

  • henryklepczynski

    on October 9, 2012

    Stunning view, beautiful black and white.

  • t

    on October 9, 2012

    ...love that 'raked-look', and the B/W...:-)

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