Tag Archives: Mt. Rainier
Wary Acquaintance
Hyper View of Mount Rainier
4 From Don Lopp
Mt Rainier With Foreground Flowers
Mt Rainier Creek
Reflection Lake Star Trails #3
My best guess is this is from 2010. This is a one-and-a-half hour exposure at f16 from 2 Hasselblads. These would be the 50mm lenses, and the film is Provia 100F. I don’t remember if I’d planned it this way, or if I later determined I’d gotten the exposure very wrong, but I ended up pushing the film 2 stops which was clearly the right thing to do. (I may have taken a test exposure from another film magazine to make the determination; just don’t remember). I probably had some children’s socks tied around the lenses, with handwarmers inside, to keep the lenses from fogging.
I’m impressed with the color and how blue the sky looks. Well, it is sunlight after all, it’s just getting to the scene via a large reflector in the sky. The moon would have been pretty full here. The challenge with these shots is to get enough light on the trees on the other side of the lake without blowing out the top of the mountain. I do like the reflected star trails in the water.
Waterfall
This spindly waterfall on the Sunrise side of Mt Rainier no longer exists. It was wiped out years ago by a mudslide. I think I’m the only one who ever noticed it! I’ve shown this slide to dozens of park rangers over the years and they always ask, “Where is that?”
Mount Rainier
Taken with my homemade camera. Taken from the Sunrise side of Mount Rainier. It’s August, and the flowers are mostly gone. In July there would be red and blue flowers everywhere. I exposed for the foreground, not the mountain.