Washington state mt rainer

One more wildflower shot for the road before I move on. I am going to spend the next two days shooting and I am hoping to find some nice little winter scenes up in the mountains before they get completely buried in snow. I remember this day like it was yesterday due to the horrendous onslaught of mosquitoes I had to deal with. They were swarming me like an Egyptian plague and by the end of the sunset I was breathing them, eating them and smearing them on my grad filters while I was trying to…

To create this image, I combined 5 bracketed exposures from Lightroom using Photomatix's "merge to 32 bit" plugin. The resulting 32 bit image is then automatically imported back into Lightroom for further processing. It's HDR but without traditional tonemapping that can lead to bad halos and a lot of cleanup work. I believe I also hit it with Topaz's new Restyle plugin. I think. ;) It's been a long day.

Mt. Stuart, Washington State

Mt. Rainer #seattle

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Mt. Rainier in Washington state. Snow capped mountain framed by colorful wild flowers and evergreen trees.

Mt. Reiner