Good morning from the Mt Hood National Forest
It's still pretty early, not even 6 in the morning. I came to Trillium Lake today
I was hoping to find the road open, but as you can see it is closed
So I have to walk the last 2 miles to the lake, which is fine because I get to do some exercise
But I'm afraid that I'm gonna miss the light
It was beautiful just a few minutes ago, and I'm afraid that when I get there, it's not gonna be that good
But I should still be able to make good images in this place because it is beautiful
It is stunning and breathtaking, all of those things
It's been a while since I was here for the last time so I'm really looking forward to this
Let's do it
This is a beautiful place, isn't it?
Actually, that's the problem of this location: the view of the lake and the mountain in the background is so stunning
and so beautiful that steals the show. It's really hard to focus or to look for different compositions here
that is not the obvious one that is right in front of you, and there is nothing wrong with taking that,
with making that image. I actually made a couple earlier
slightly different but the same shot, and I made a couple of long exposures.
Most of my images, if not all of them this morning have been long exposures.
As you can tell, I love long exposure photography, for me
It feels almost like cheating because the images don't look like photographs
They look more like paintings and that's something that I really, really wanna achieve with my photography
There is absolutely nothing wrong with taking a regular shot of this scene, this is a beautiful setting
I mean, you can't really go wrong with it
There are some things in this scene that a painter wouldn't paint
For example the contrails from the planes in the sky
The clouds are not the most beautiful clouds this morning
So those are the things that I'm trying to get rid of with a long exposure, and I think it's working
And I think it's taking this already beautiful scene to another level and it's making for almost a perfect
painting and I love this place because of this
So, I'm not really sure what's going on here
I don't know if it's the remote or the camera that is not working properly
But I'm not able to take more long exposures. That kind of sucks. So this was the last one from here
I was using this as a frame for the mountain and the lake, kind of, and talking about frames
I'm gonna go for a walk, there is a beautiful boardwalk along the lake
I'm gonna be looking for frames for the mountain. Hopefully some trees and branches, stuff like that. That's what I'm gonna be doing now