Showing posts with label Mt. Shasta. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Mt. Shasta. Show all posts

Thursday, November 11, 2010

Mt. Shasta Monochrome

This seemed to be a natural to try in monochrome. After converting it though I always have a hard time choosing which I like best. The blue sky in the color image is so deep and perfect, but all the contrast in the scene just lends itself to the monochrome image. Guess I'll just pick them both.

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Sunday, November 7, 2010

It Just Kept Going


Mt. Shasta
Originally uploaded by Jim Arnold (jga154)
This image was made several hours after our first ones at sunrise. The cloud just kept going and going, changing and changing. We were on our way up to Castle Lake when I took this. If you've been there you know the spot.

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The Ring


Mt. Shasta
Originally uploaded by Jim Arnold (jga154)
View this large and you will see the large round ring at the bottom of the cap. It was very interesting watching this cloud go through it's morphs. Of course Mary thought this looked like a condom. She is right too.

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Saturday, November 6, 2010

Mt. Shasta With A Linticular Cloud


Mt. Shasta
Originally uploaded by Jim Arnold (jga154)
Yesterday a friend emailed me about great fall color in the Mt. Shasta area. Mary and I decided to go see. We got up at 5am and left at 6:12am. When we got to Mt. Shasta city it was too dark to photograph, so I pulled into the Black Bear Diner for some breakfast.

We did notice a very interesting linticular cloud capping Mt. Shasta, discussed going up, but decided there was not enough time to get there by sunrise. Then I changed our mind and we (I) drove up the Everett Memorial Highway quickly.

Low and behold we made it. We shot the cloud/mountain for over an hour. The cloud sort of blew off and the light left so we headed back down to town for some breakfast....again. 7 grain, nutty, almond waffles, yummy.

Back to the fall color. It was windy up on the mountain and down in town. Too windy for good leaf shots. The color was beautiful though. We ended up getting some more shots of the cloud later from the Castle Lake road. Mary found a bunch of mushroom shots too.

All in all it was a fun, nice day in Mt. Shasta. Thanks Dean.


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