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The two days that I tried to shoot the Tetons at sunrise ended up being cloudy to partly cloudy. The light was better the day I shot this one than the day before (http://www.gigapan.org/gigapans/30797/), but not what I was hoping for. Nonetheless, I had time to kill while the sun got to work burning off the clouds, so I went for high detail - 4.2 gigapixels worth, as it turns out. |
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Do you think there's a shallow magma chamber here? |
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Morning view of the east face of Mount Rainier from Sunrise Ridge. |
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In many ways, this view of Lower Yellowstone Falls has superior lighting as compared to the one that I shot the previous day (http://www.gigapan.org/gigapans/30677/). In particular, and thanks to the tip from professional photographer Roger Devore (http://www.devorephoto.com), who was set up immediately to my right, there's a particular optical effect visible here that only happens for a brief window each day. Can you find it? |
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Not the best lighting, but sometimes you have to take what you can get. |
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It takes some serious topography to move big rocks like these. Gee Toto, I don't think we're in Kansas anymore... |
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There are a couple of bands of "partly cloudy" in there, but on the whole it turned out sunnier than I expected. Any warping of the image is the result of the extreme downward angle at the bottom of the GigaPan. It should look good when viewed in a spherical projection in Google Earth. |
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This is the angle and the time of day to really see the rocks that give Yellowstone its name. The Yellowstone River has carved this dramatic canyon through a zone of hydrothermally altered and weakened post-caldera rhyolites. If you look closely, you can even find active hydrothermal vents (look for steam) down along the river. I think that if I were shooting this one again I'd have shot a little more on each side to square the image up a bit, but most of all I wanted to capture a view that illustrated the entire canyon from top to bottom. |
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Finally the clouds have cleared enough to get a really nice view of the range front. How many cascades can you find? |