mountains

There are places in this world that have a surreal, mystical quality to them. Spirit Island, which technically is not an island but a peninsula on Maligne Lake in Jasper N.P. Alberta, is one of those rare places. Only accessible by boat tour or a 14km canoe paddle, it is a place held sacred by...

This summer, I checked off a "bucket-list" item and visited the Canadian Rockies with my wife. One of the locations I was most excited to visit was iconic Moraine Lake. As expected, it was crowded, but there was plenty of room to move around on the rock pile. This is the first image I...

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

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.

I took a small break in the midst of my wildflower hunting in Colorado to drive the grandkids up to Mt Evans in Colorado. The highlight of our trip was being able to see this large herd of Mountain Goats wandering around by one of the view points. Here is a couple I have processed so far, I...

This summer I had the pleasure of visiting friends that built their retirement home in Cody Wyoming. One of the days we did an outing taking us over Bear Tooth Summit and found this lovely display of wildflowers right near the 10,497 elevation. I only had my back up camera with me and no...

This is my first post on this site, so this is a bit of an experiment to see if I'm doing this right. This is the trail that I met our host Jim Fox on and who introduced me to FocalWorld. Feel free to critique the image. Due to time constraints I put photography on hold for several years so now...

After shooting the stars for a good portion of the night, this is the wonderful sight that greeted me in the morning at Sky Pond in the RMNP in Colorado. It's a similar composition as the star shot because I liked getting the flowers and especially the Columbine into the image and plus it...

Most of you have seen Monika's recent star shots from Sky Pond in the RMNP in Colorado, here is one I took almost a month ago. To avoid going down the waterfall climb in the dark that Monika described in her Thread and to be able to shoot both sunset, the stars and sunrise I just stayed up there...

I am SO OVER SUMMER. Heading to Colorado again next month, but this time with some buddies from Portland, and for 8+/- days; and hope I don't hit a 3 point deer on the way, like I did last year that ruined my trip (at least it was in a rental and only cost me $100). Anyways, this was more of a...

This captures the transition to night.... Day Gives Way by Zeph posted Aug 12, 2018 at 10:07 PM C&C Welcome

End of day clouds over Thunder Mountain in the Carson Pass of the Sierra Nevada in California.

The words of this good ole Stones tune were playing in my head as I hiked down from an overnighter at Sibley Pass in the North Cascades this week. I'd hauled my Sony A7rII, 3 lenses, extra batteries, and my RX100 as a back-up, up a hot bug infested trail hoping to do a stary night time-lapse...

I was disappointed to have fire haze obscuring the peaks last night after carrying my camera, tripod, and three lenses up a hot 3000+ ft. elevation gain trail, fighting biting flies the whole way. This is a 3 shot pano looking north to Mt. Baker that I managed to process with a lot of work.

Was here with some good friends for a week this past March. A7R2 + Contax/Zeiss 80-200.

First day at the Dolomites heading to that beautiful place to start with - Santa Maddalena. First thing in the morning we went out to take some photos but not a single cloud. And then for a couple of minutes came that cloud that I needed to close the curves from top to bottom. I liked it :)...

Mayflower Gulch, CO

Vesper-Canyon-Pks._Panorama2-Recovered by Jim Dockery posted Mar 4, 2018 at 8:49 AM First light hits my home mountains in the Central Cascades. L-R: Vesper, Big Four, Bedal, Pilchuck, Canyon Peaks.