Buttefull Sunrise

[AlanLichty]

After discovering that the Steptoe Butte park was actually open long before sunrise (the sign says 8:00am) I got up on the Butte early enough this morning to get some good sidelight once the sun got up over the low clouds.

Steptoe Sunrise

• AlanLichty
• May 5, 2019

Sunrise scene as viewed from Steptoe Butte, WA.

C&C always welcome.

 

[JimFox]

What a really nice early light view. Does the park have a gate? Or was it just a sign?

I am liking all of those wildflowers you have there. The only thing that catches my eye is that brown patch that is along the right edge. Either less of it or more of it in the composition I think would strengthen this.

 

[AlanLichty]

The park road does have a gate but I have never seen it closed so far. There are two signs - one near the turnoff that says 8:00am to dusk and another just inside the park boundary saying dawn to dusk. No overnight is allowed according to the signs.

 

[Douglas Sherman]

Another nice image, Alan. I love the foreground Mule's Ears. I would take some of that haze out with dehaze in lightroom.

 

[Ben Egbert]

Nice Alan.

 

[AlanLichty]

Another nice image, Alan. I love the foreground Mule's Ears. I would take some of that haze out with dehaze in lightroom.

Thanks Doug - I actually took out a lot of the morning haze already. Both at a global level and then again with a graduated filter from the top. Things can get kind of funky if you overdo the dehaze slider.

The foreground flower is Arrowleaf Balsamroot. My first thought wen I saw them up in the Spokane area was that they were Mules Ear as well but the leaves are quite distinctive.

 

[Ben Egbert]

Right Alan we Spokane folks always called them balsamroot.