My Last Winter Landscape of the Season...

...was taken on May 31st.

I was returning from three days of shooting along the southern Oregon Coast. For the fun of it, I decided to go through Lassen Volcanic NP. The road going through it had just opened that weekend, after winter closure. It was the right time to go there.

I had been shooting this scene - Lassen Volcano over Upper Meadows and Kings Creek - many times, but was never happy with the composition. The terrain is such, that you can be either close to the creek and low to get the foreground, or high up and away from the creek to get the volcano without most of it being blocked by the trees. Well, this time I got both.

The snow that had been cleared from the road was dumped down onto the meadow and filled the area up to the creek, 30 feet high. And it was stable, too. I saw a bulldozer's tire marks on it and figured that it would hold me as well; including camera. That's how I got the shot I wanted so bad: by coincidence, on a platform of snow that won't last.


EOS 3, Canon 24-70 @ 45mm, f/11, Warmpol, Velvia Classic (still had that in the camera from shooting the lush greens along the Oregon Coast; didn't hurt), Tripod. 5/31/04