Photos

After six years of drought, the "Greatest Snow On Earth" (the slogan on our license plates) was becoming the rarest snow on earth. We were lucky to have a good amount of snow for the 2002 Winter Olympics. This year has changed things, we have gone from drought to one of the wettest years since people started recording percipitation levels.

The photograph is of Mt. Timpanogos, which is 11,750 feet above sea level. The snow level drops to about 7000 feet above sea level, and the altitute from where the image was taken was about 4,550 feet above sea level.

There is a lot of snow, at last official measure, a couple of big storms ago, there was over 300 inches at the top. That is a lot of snow!

I don't take many pictures in my own back yard, but I couldn't help but think what a beautiful scene, and a beautiful mountain with the evening light and the modeling from the shadows of the setting sun.

I exposed to keep the high values of the exposure within the sensitivity range of the D70, thanks to the histogram. I wanted the foreground to underexpose with no detail.

There was very little post processing. Using Nikon Capture, I adjust the color balance to be a little less warm from the sunset, boosting the blue in the sky very slightly. In PS, I removed a couple of light artifacts from the foreground to not be distracting. I sized the image to fit proportions for TE.