Somewhere back there, you can see the place where I'm going to
This is one of the most insane places I've ever been to
A place that makes you feel really, really small and insignificant
This sign shows you the mountain that used to be right here, but there is no mountain right now,
as you can see, because it decided to explode some 8,000 years ago
right now, there is just a huge hole, a hole filled with water
This is Oregon's only national park, this is Crater Lake
I've been here a couple times before but never really had much time for photography
that's why I'm here, that's why I'm revisiting this place, trying to fix that
I'm going to be spending most of the day here today
I'm going to go up there, uh, I don't remember the name of that peak
but I'm going to go there for sunset, it should be pretty cool
Actually, I came here last night as well
I drove more than 7 hours yesterday to be here
because there were a couple of things happening last night that I couldn't miss
Last night was Halloween, and there was a full moon
which is not rare, you know, it happens every 28 days
but it is not every day that I have the chance to be in a place like this one
and witness a moon rise
the sky was clear as well, I mean there were a couple clouds in the
horizon that kind of ruined the shot that I was going for
but I mean, it wasn't overcast or anything, I got to see the full moon
but the main reason to come here last night was because they closed the road today,
November 1st, so it's not possible to drive around the caldera anymore
and the viewpoint I wanted to go to is a few miles away from the visitor center,
the only point that is open right now
It would've been a long walk to get there, and the way back would have to be in the dark...
so yeah, that's why I drove that much yesterday to be here
it was totally worth it
for me, a once in a lifetime thing
I mean, for people who live around here yes, they'll have more chances in the future,
but I don't happen to be around here very often, so yeah
so before starting my hike to that peak, I'm going to show you the footage I got
yesterday, and the images that I made yesterday
I hope you enjoy them, see you very soon
All right, let's go up there, it should be beautiful
It is really hard to imagine, to visualize what happened here 8,000 years ago
the amount of destruction that had to happen here for a mountain to disappear, to collapse
it is one of those places that it doesn't matter how long you look at it, it just doesn't look real
there is 1 hour left before sunset,
I'm still halfway up there because I'm stopping very often to make images
right now it's the best time to make images here, and well, in the mountains in general
because you get those shadows, the peaks start to create and form those shadows that are so cool
and they work very, very well with black and white
sunset itself is going to be pretty to look at, the colors are going to be pretty,
but for my style of photography, for black and white, I think right now it's the time
There are no words to describe this place
or at least, I don't have them
and I guess that's why I do photography instead
but just look at it
that's the lookout where I made the long exposure of the full moon yesterday
so yeah, I've explored this much of Crater Lake, I have at least 2/3 of the rim to explore
It's very nice to visit this place in the summer, in the fall, when
you can drive around, and when you can hike and even backpack around here
but the winter is very beautiful here too
they get a lot of snow, I think up to 45 feet of snow every season
last time I was here was during the winter, it was full of snow
we were just going through the place so I didn't really stop that much, for that long
but it was beautiful, I'm really hoping to come back here in the future
with snow and make some images
What a beautiful sunset this was, I can't believe,
it's really hard to believe for me that in the span of 24 hours
I went from watching the sunset and the moon rise on the beach, on the coast
to being here, in this amazing place and doing the same watching the sunset and the moon rise
not tonight, that was last night, but yeah
I am very, very lucky to be able to do this
All right, I'm not loving the photos from here,
so I think I'm going to call it a day and I'm going to leave Crater Lake
I have no idea when I'm going to be back here, but I will, for sure
I hope you all enjoyed this video
Thank you so much for watching, and see you in the next one!