cascades

DJI Mavic 2 Pro, view toward Three Fingers and Whitehorse Mt.

Shot with DJI Mavic 2 Pro drone near White Chuck Mountain (prominent rocky peak at center) in Washington's Central Cascades. Click through to see full size.

Two weeks ago, (Sept. 7), a fast moving cold front pushed through Washington. I was hoping for some dramatic clouds, and a good sunset photo. When I checked the skies in the late afternoon, it was completely overcast and I was thinking, there would be no photos tonight. I went back out about...

Kick-start this forum with more posts from directly above my house. This is one of the coolest things about having a drone - I can almost instantly have a great view of the sky and mountains. Hopefully more drone shooters will join in and start posting here. Sept. 20, 2018

A Brocken spectre (German: Brockengespenst), also called Brocken bow or mountain spectre, is the magnified (and apparently enormous) shadow of an observer cast upon clouds opposite of the Sun's direction. - Wikipedia I'm somewhere in the rainbow around the shadow of the tip of the mountain.

I stayed the night in the lookout on the summit. Glacier Pk. behind. DJI Mavic 2 Pro pano, shot RAW, stitched in ACR.

Nine shots (3 rows of 3) with my Sony A7rII resulted in this 2.5 GB pano - morning view east to Glacier Pk. from the top of Mt. Pilchuck. Click through to see larger. Pilchuck-Sunrise-(159)-Pano by Jim Dockery posted Sep 20, 2018 at 9:58 AM

I hiked up my little local peak Monday with a heavy pack filled with photo gear to spend the night. I lucked out having the lookout to myself (other than a noisy mouse). My star time lapse failed when my A7rII, which I'd left out on a tripod ready for an 11 PM start time, gave an error when I...

Another one from the top of Mt. Pilchuck last week. Looking SE, Spada Lk. on the r.

I'd gone on a rather unsuccessful afternoon drive up into the mountains near my house with my wife yesterday to work on flying my drone. The weather was unsettled, so I was hoping for some dramatic clouds, but got sprinkled on at the spots where I stopped, so cut it short (one of the limitations...

I'm normally up here for skiing in the spring, but enjoy looking at the rocky ridge that is so smooth with snow cover then.

Since getting a new drone I've been excited to use it's unique perspective. Of course like everyone I wanted to get a shot of my own house, but didn't want to zip around in the middle of the day bothering the neighbors, or giving them concerns about their privacy (and I won't be doing that in...

Another hike up my closest little peak just before the first rains of the fall season started. I was mainly there to try out my new drone, but was glad I brought my Sony A7rII with 24-104mm also for these earthbound shots. Mt. Baker Mt. Baker II Glacier Pk. Three Fingers Looking east...

I've already put some shots up in the drone discussion forum, but it doesn't seem to get many views so I'm going to share here. My brother and I just got a DJI Mavic 2 Pro. Yesterday was my first real photo trip, hiking up my close to home little mountain, Mt. Pilchuck. Me (blue dot in center)...

I posted a color version in the landscape forum, and thought I should show my B&W version here. South Early Winter Spires The entire Liberty Bell group

Fall view of the Early Winter Spires at Washington Pass with larch color and an early dusting of snow. This smoky summer has me looking forward to days like that returning.

I took this a few years ago on an after work hike, one of my first focus stacks.

The smoke haze was disappointing, but I shot with B&W conversions in mind. Evening, NE from Sibley Pass Sunrise to the SE

I've already posted a few of Little-T taken from near Sunrise a week ago. Here is more of a mountain portrait.