Mount Shasta

Mount Shasta, CA
Canon EOS Rebel T5i, EF 17-40mm f/4L USM, f/8, 1/80s, ISO: 100

I'm starting to get back into the normal rhythm of things after my Thanksgiving trip up North.  I took a little under two thousand photos.  I'll be spending the next week or so going through them.  I wonder how much money that would have cost me in film and processing back in the day.  A photographer had to know what he/she was doing back then.  Now, a lug like me can drive around and press the button on the camera until his finger turns blue then sift through the crap to find the occasional gem.  Gotta love technology.

Mount Shasta

Mount Shasta, CA
Canon PowerShot SX40 HS

Interstate Five is not the most interesting drive one can make.  I've driven it scores of times between Portland and Buttonwillow and I'm very familiar with the entire stretch between Seattle and Los Angeles.  The best section is the drive between Redding and Medford.  Mount Shasta is in view a lot of the time.  I often stop for pictures of that big boy.  It's an under-appreciated  mountain.  I think a case could be made that it's the most spectacular of the mountains in the Cascade Range.  At 14,179 feet in height it's second only to Mount Ranier (14,410 feet) in height in the range.  With no peaks near it the full scale of the mountain can be seen from all directions.  It reminds me of Mount Fuji in that sense.  While it's glaciers aren't as impressive as Ranier's, it's a beautiful, moody mountain that changes its look on an hourly basis.  It's also more consistently visible than most of the Cascade peaks.

Photo selection inspired by Geogypsy's Foto Friday Fun 133, image #5047.

Peeking Over the Clouds

Mount Shasta, CA
Canon EOS Rebel T5i, Canon EF-S 17-40mm f/4L Lens, 1/320s, f/4.0, ISO: 100

I drove up to Oregon yesterday for a funeral.  There's a spot near Weed where I like to stop to take pictures of Mount Shasta if its visible.  It kind of was.  It looks like it has a nice dusting of snow on it.  That's good, but Shasta Lake is still very low.  There's a long way to go before California  has really recovered from the drought.