By the way, you might have noticed a spider on the lens. Oh, no, she's gone now
it's crazy looking. It's being on my camera for the last 10 minutes. I don't want to touch it so
Hi, I've come to Mt St Helens today, as you cannot see, she's not out today
Anyway, this is the viewpoint where I made my long exposure of the moonrise a couple years ago
I made it from here
This is a very special place, a very unique landscape in the northwest
I guess along with Crater Lake in Southern Oregon. Both of them are volcanoes gone mad. And while the one in Oregon
did it a long time ago, this one went ballistic just 40 years ago
so you can still see all path of destruction
it's very cool and a very
interesting subject to photograph. Today is a very nice day
but it's not the best day for photography, as you can see, the light is a little bit harsh and the mountain is not out
but I'm not giving up. First things first, I'm gonna go to the observatory
because I've been here a bunch of times and I've never gone to the observatory. I want to check it out and
also, I need to go to the bathroom
So, you know what to expect now, there is gonna be plenty of music and footage and hopefully good images. So let's do it
It's raining, but thanks to this tree I'm dry and this is beautiful, this is just beautiful
Raining quite a lot now
which is too bad because it caught me in the middle of that hike, it's a hike I had never done before and
I kind of wanted it to do it today, but it is what it is
Now, I am going to Coldwater Lake but with this rain
I don't know if I'm gonna be able to make any images. There are still a few hours of daylight left
So I might just wait there at the lake for a break in the rain
The good thing about the rain is that there is, in my opinion, there is no light like the light
after the rain, it's just beautiful. I got a little bit
back there and I made some images of the trees, the pine trees in the foreground, the mountains in the background
and I think that those images are gonna be good, hopefully. The light was beautiful
Anyway, as I said, I'm gonna drive to the lake now and see what happens there
Hopefully the rain gives us a little break so we can make some good images
That would be a very nice way to finish this, so far, awesome day here in Mt St Helens, so let's do it
Okay. I'm on my way to the lake but I had to stop here because, oh my god, that view
So, this is the beautiful Coldwater Lake, this lake didn't exist before the eruption, the eruption created a natural dam
that created the lake, so it's very new. It's only 40 years old and it's already
pretty cool
All right, so not very happy with the images that I made here
The light was not with me and I couldn't find any compositions that I liked
I don't know, I might change my mind once I look at them on the big screen and I work a little bit on them
But I'm not very happy
So just in case, I'm gonna try to find some footage and images that I have from here because I've been here
many times in the past
well, many times, maybe 3 or 4, but yeah, I've made images here with my digital camera
I've made them with the Bronica as well and
I don't have videos on YouTube from here, I have just random
I hope, I have just random footage that I took with my phone
If I have that if I can find it, I'll show it to you now
Okay, so hopefully you got to see some of my past work here at this lake, it's a beautiful place
St Helens is hidden now again. She's probably gone to sleep
I am going too, there's still like 1 hour of daylight
but I I'd rather just go now. There is nothing else to do here, the light is not gonna get any better
It's very cloudy and I'd rather drive when it's still daylight out. So, thank you so much for watching,
I hope you enjoyed the video, and see you in the next one
By the way, I almost forgot!
I recorded the whole thing in 4k for the first time in almost 2 years
I have my reasons for that
But just let me know if it looks better, if it looks the same, if it looks worse
I don't know, just let me know what you think about it