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The lights of Portland, 53 miles away, from the top of the Palmer lift (8,400' +/-) about 2 AM, June 24, 1986.
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[ Post a Comment ]| Bor | Nice! | | 
Voted 10/10 | nice photo! | | Posted Sep 2, 2004 5:17 pm |
| rpc | pretty hard... | | 
Voted 10/10 | ...to post an original shot on the Hood page (with its 2 million photos) but looks like you've done that. Nice and UNIQUE shot. | | Posted Sep 2, 2004 8:02 pm |
 | | Don Nelsen | Re: pretty hard... | | 
Hasn't voted | Thank you very much for the compliment! I know what you mean - I've got something like 5,000 pics but I hate to post something close to what's already been done - hard to go through the huge archive on some of the mountain pages!
BTW, You have a nice repertoire and some great pics too.
Best regards,
Don | | Posted Sep 2, 2004 8:40 pm |
| | Cornvallis | Re: pretty hard... | | 
Voted 10/10 | Agreed. Very nice! | | Posted Sep 2, 2004 10:27 pm |
| | rpc | Re: pretty hard... | |
Voted 10/10 | Thanks for the good remarks Don.
radek | | Posted Sep 3, 2004 11:48 am |
| Brian Jenkins | Man, does this.... | | 
Voted 10/10 | bring back memories of slogging up the south side in the middle of the night. Nice.
| | Posted Sep 3, 2004 12:50 pm |
| | Don Nelsen | Re: Man, does this.... | |
Hasn't voted | Yeah, one of the cool things about this climb is the great views - of Portand, of course, but all the way to Eugene and even the glow of the Seattle city lights to the north. I've climbed Hood 8 or 9 or nine times, always starting about midnight so this has always been a surrealistic event for me.
best regards,
don
| | Posted Sep 7, 2004 12:53 am |
| koz | Exposure time | | 
Voted 10/10 | How long was this exposure? Looks longer than your typical night-time shot (bright city lights, elongated stars etc.). Nice job! | | Posted Sep 4, 2004 12:44 am |
| | Don Nelsen | Re: Exposure time | |
Hasn't voted | Thank you for the compliment!
This was taken June 24th, 1986 with a circa 1980 Olympus OM 10 with a 50mm fixed-focus lens set at f1.8. I used ASA100 forced to ASA25 to lengthen the automatic exposure time. I've found that this is a good way to get enough light onto the film to bring out the deep blues in what would show up as an otherwise black sky. I think the exposure was about a minute. Also, there was a nearly full moon behind me to light up the snow.
best regards,
Don
| | Posted Sep 4, 2004 4:06 pm |
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