cascades

The day before Christmas. Click through for larger gallery image. Drone06-Pano by Jim Dockery posted Dec 26, 2018 at 2:58 PM DJI Mavic 2 Pro, RAW shots stitched in ACR

We thought we were going to get wet for sure on our climb to high camp on the east side of Mt. Rainier, but we made it dry, then the clouds miraculously moved through.

I posted a larger pano taken the same morning, this was a bit later. DJI Mavic Pro 2

Took the drone up for a looksee for sunrise this morning. Didn't appear too exciting from my front yard, but once I was a couple hundred feet up this opened up! Click through for a larger gallery version. Drone-Sunrise-12.3.18-16-Pano-hd by Jim Dockery posted Dec 3, 2018 at 9:35 AM DJI MP2, 8...

Near Gold Creek

Looking into the heart of the North Cascades from Green Mt.

Mt.-Loop-10.2.18-17-Pano by Jim Dockery posted Nov 4, 2018 at 6:29 AM DJI Mavic 2 Pro Pano, taken from The Blue Bridge near the entrance to The Mountain Loop.

Shot this week up The Mountain Loop Highway in Washington's central Cascades, near my house. I finally went out and found some copyright free music so I can freely publish this.

I hiked up the Ingalls Creek trail last week in search of fall colors, but found myself in the creek, the colors in the water, and color of the rocks combined with the trees, was something I had to try to capture. I need to learn how to focus stack, as this first pic is fuzzy in the background.

“ Jumpin’ Jeff” is the nickname I gave my young partner who heads for every snow covered boulder he can catch some air off of. This is the first shot I got of him in action on Mt. Pilchuck many years ago on an after work dusk patrol. IMG_2745gnd.nn2 by Jim Dockery posted Feb 13, 2018 at 9:21 AM

Jim Fox was asking how stable a DJI Mavic 2 Pro is for long exposures. It seems to be a virtual tripod, the 4 propellers work independently to maintain a position, so you can just work the gimble like I did in this pano, each RAW shot was 1/10th of a sec. If you do a full downward rotation of...

Taken on a perfect fall day, two RAW shots pano, DJI Mavic 2 Pro.

The Mountain Loop Highway is my local gateway to the Cascades. I can be up hiking on Mt. Pilchuck in 45 min., or further up like yesterday in a little over an hour of beautiful stress free driving. Fall color is as good as it gets around here. Perry Creek trail didn't disappoint, although I...

All taken from Green Mt.

Taken from Green Mt.

One of the cool things about drones is their ability to hover over a river. Mt.-Loop-(23)-Pano by Jim Dockery posted Oct 4, 2018 at 7:28 AM

My mother was staying with us this weekend so I took the drone straight up above my house to show her how it works. Morning-above-house-9.29.18-(32)-Pano by Jim Dockery posted Sep 30, 2018 at 5:27 PM DJI Mavic 2 Pro

Taken from a DJI Mavic 2 Pro drone near White Chuck Mt.

My favorite ski run on Mt. Pilchuck in the spring looks very different in the summer.