It's kind of interesting how different they seem - I was in pretty much the same place (within 5-10' anyway), same prime lens.........just portrait vs landscape mode.
At the ridge between Upper Deep Creek and Ridge Lakes is this view of Little El Capitan.
This was a morning shot (alpenglow was faint & brief and I was still 10 minutes from the ridge) - stitched vertical pano.
This was that evening as the clouds rolled in. It was completely cloudy for the...
On a busy day hiking in, I saw 3 other people. By the time I reached Upper Ridge Lake, I realized that that's where people stage to hike up Wind River Peak. Not many campsites (flat area with smooth, flat rocks as a tent base) and all except one were taken. There was a lower lake that I think...
This is obviously a little used trail in the Wind Rivers....... The 1st bridge has a cross hatched log to replace it. The 2nd was just over a dry marsh. My dog didn't like it but was OK going over it, but on the way back, I couldn't get her to follow me onto the crispy marsh & she broke...
Good work on both of these. I would try a 16:9 crop on #2 even though you liked the foreground rock. Looks like you were able to be away from the wildfire smoke that has been plaguing the country.
I was not in good shape for that.........slept maybe 1-2 hours the previous night & I knew it would be a bad day walking that last stretch; it took me 2x the "conventional" time i.e. 10 hours instead of 5. I felt every one of my 67+ years, but fortunately, when we started down, 68 felt much...
I just got back from a short backpack into the southern Wind River Range. Managed to find a smoke-free window -- only a few whiffs in the evenings of some days. This is Little El Capitan between Upper Deep Creek and Ridge Lakes. The next day was planned to be a traverse below Wind River Peak...
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