Fotoeins Friday: Mount Rainier, sleeping giant
At the northwest corner of Pike Place Market in Seattle, Victor Steinbrueck Park provides a beautiful view which includes Washington State Ferries shuttling between Seattle and locations around central Puget Sound. Mount Rainier looms over CenturyLink Field (left) and Safeco Field (right). At a height of 4392 metres (14410 feet), Mount Rainier is a dormant stratovolcano in the Cascade Mountain Range, and is the highest mountain in Washington State (and, naturally, very prominent on license plates). The line-of-sight distance from camera position to the summit of Mount Rainier is 95 kilometres (59 miles).
At lower-left is the Alaskan Way Viaduct which will be demolished in favour of a tunnel under downtown Seattle.
Postscript: After closure on 11 January 2019, demolition of the viaduct began on 12 February 2019, lasted about nine months, and concluded on 21 November 2019.
I made the photo on 11 May 2016 with the Canon EOS6D, 24-105 L zoom-lens, and the following settings: 1/1250s, f/5, ISO100, and 90mm focal-length. This post appears on Fotoeins Fotopress at fotoeins.com as http://wp.me/p1BIdT-8xr.
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3 Responses to “Fotoeins Friday: Mount Rainier, sleeping giant”
This one falls within the “I can’t believe it’s no photoshopped” category. It is fantastic!
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Gracias, Eva! 😅 What I did to the image (as I do in standard fashion to every image) was cropping, followed by “dodging and burning.” I’m of the camp that goes with “trying to get in-camera as much right as possible.” I’m far more interested in what I’m seeing than what can be done in post (-production). Because frankly, I am lazy. 😁
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[…] 3rd level, looking north along the city waterfront, before demolition of the Alaska Way Viaduct. Photo on 18 Feb 2012 (450D). VSP indicates the location of Victor Steinbrueck Park for the “reverse view” of Century Link Field […]
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