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We carried a drone to all the summits we did in that year, but the conditions were never right to fly a drone. Finally, we got lucky on the way down from the summit of Mt Stuart, the wind stopped, there was no one else on the mountain, and here’s what we ended up with.
I spent a week driving around Norway above the Arctic Circle in the winter capturing the Northern Lights. The above was captured on New Years day!
Standing at 10,300ft [3130m] on Camp Muir on Mt Rainier (an active volcano with 20+ glaciers), with Mt St Helen’s (another active volcano that famously erupted in 1980) in the background, and the beautiful ridges of all the mountains in between 🏔 Sunrise on Camp Muir! Flying into LAX early morning, got to witness this beautiful view! The dreamy clouds really add to the feeling, an exciting welcome into the city! Do you see that tiny plane in the sky? Got lucky with timing 🙂 #lax #losangeles #california A unique and interesting vantage view into the city of LA lies right in the middle of it in this park that recently reopened. It was so nice to be up there before sunrise and see the colors change in the peaceful setting of all the flowers in various colors Water level at Shasta Dam / Shasta Lake a few weeks ago, with Mt Shasta 14,179 feet (4321.8 m), in the background🏔 There’s a lupine superbloom happening near Sacramento in California these few weeks. I got a chance to check it out with my parents. The landscape is already surreal and the flowers take it to a totally different level #superbloom #folsomlake #flowers #wildflowers Somewhere in California! Since the viewfinder on my camera is no longer optical I can point the camera straight into the sun and not worry too much about my eyes. This is a 85mm f/1.8 with 9 rounded blades which creates this iconic smooth bokeh around the light source. We were at #donnerpass recently. The moon 🌝 was very bright and it created an opportunity for capturing something that shows a lit up subject as well as stars in the sky 🌌 . This is a single exposure. The bridge in the bottom foreground created even more depth. It was a beautiful night! Bathed in moonlight in the Tahoe National Forest. This may look like daytime but it is actually nighttime - the moon 🌝 was quite bright this weekend! Do you see the stars? The source of water for the Modesto Reservoir is the Tuolumne River, which begins high in the Sierra Nevada Mountains. The reservoir delivers up to 67,000 acre-feet per year of water to the City of Modesto, supplementing the City’s groundwater supply. Thousands of acres of the reservoir are also open to the public for recreational use like camping, fishing, etc. It’s a single exposure shot with very little post processing. It’s just a 3s exposure which makes the water ripples look smoothened out making it a good juxtaposition against the sharp background elements #modesto #california #modestoreservoir A peek view of the Ferry Building and Coit Tower, while driving across the San Francisco Bay Bridge! Ocean Beach in San Francisco always has great sunsets. But it can be quite cold, you always need to wear warm layers all year #oceanbeach #pacificocean #sanfrancisco Somewhere in Lassen Volcanic National Park! For years I have been flying north south across WA to CA and always choose my flight seat to get a view of Crater Lake in Oregon from up above. Had never visited it, always wanted to visit in the winter. Luckily, it has started snowing by now there when we visited recently. The lake was formed 7,700 years ago by a collapse of a volcano. At 1,949 ft / 594m it is the deepest lake in the US! We are standing at 7,100ft / 2,165m and temperature was 22°F / -5.6°C Mount Shasta is called Úytaahkoo or “White Mountain” in the native language Karuk. It has an elevation of 14,179 ft / 4321.8 m. It’s located in California but is part of the Cascade Mountains that stretch all the way to Oregon, Washington and even Canada. Sunset in El Dorado Hills near Sacramento! Love all the shades of blue and yellow in here. It was right after the sun dropped. This is quite surreal, because it is. The fires in California make the sun appear this way and the sky does its own thing too. I took this photograph in the Tahoe National Forest near Nevada city. Bottom is right in the middle of the night. Top is an hour before dawn. It’s a time lapse of the Milky Way over some mountains. A couple of the images in this sequence are off. Can you tell which ones? #milkyway #collage #timelapse Another unexpected guest on a macro shot 😊 Can you believe we didn’t even know this comet existed until less than 4 months ago? And now we won’t see it again for 6700 years! C/2020 F3 (NEOWISE) or Comet NEOWISE is a retrograde comet with a near-parabolic orbit discovered on March 27, 2020, by astronomers during the NEOWISE mission of the Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE) space telescope. Under dark skies, it can be clearly seen with the naked eye and might remain visible to the naked eye throughout most of July 2020, at least until July 23, the point of the comet's closest approach to Earth at a distance of 0.69 AU (103 million km; 64 million mi). Comet NEOWISE made its closest approach to the Sun (perihelion) on July 3, 2020, at a distance of 0.29 AU (43 million km; 27 million mi). This passage increases the comet's orbital period from about 4400 years to about 6700 years. I was hiking / climbing in the Tahoe National Forest and taking some pictures of the wildflowers when I suddenly noticed this tiny little thing on one of the petals. I only had a few seconds to get this photo and I got lucky to have it be in exact focus. Anyone know what this little guy is called? This is the lightest part of the main Milky Way band. I used stacking for this one (i.e. I merged 8 separate exposures into one) - something I have never done before. It’s supposed to reduce noise significantly, but I haven’t pixel peeped yet. Before sunrise! Did you know that a pine cone is also called a conifer cone? A cone is an organ on plants in the division Pinophyta (conifers) that contains the reproductive structures. The familiar woody cone is the female cone, which produces seeds. The individual plates of a cone are known as scales. A pine cone is also an example of what some people consider sacred geometry. It has what is described as a sacred spiral (based on the fibonacci sequence), which is considered to be inherent in many things in nature, including, for example, a snail shell. Beautiful day in the Sierra Nevadas at Sonora Pass, part of the Pacific Crest Trail Went for a walk in the neighborhood. It was a grey rainy day. But there was a sea of these flowers next to the sidewalk. Do you know what these are called? Birds of Paradise! This is a color photograph, with no filters, colorization, desaturation etc. This is what it looked like in the Bay Area on March 25. The heavy fog and the bright daytime sun created this very drab color palette. This is true to what it actually looked like to the naked eye. Sunset in San Francisco! Sunset from Berkeley Marina! That is the Golden Gate Bridge in the background #berkeley #marina #sunset #ggbridge 🌝 So when you lay your hands on a 600mm lens, you obviously have to take a pic of the moon. I tried but I couldn’t find Neil Armstrong’s steps in this pic 😇 But this is the closest optical photo of the moon that I have ever clicked. What do you think? #moon #fullmoon

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