Quarry: Large on black | Prints of this photo | All available prints | My websiteSkylar and I had a great day Saturday hiking through Mitchell Canyon in the Mt. Diablo State Park (Northern California). We took a trail full of switchbacks up as high as we could until exhaustion and impending sunset forced us to turn around. I think we were probably very close to the summit but we didn’t start out early enough in the day to make it. Even though we didn’t make it to the top, our timing was great because on the way down there was an increasingly glorious formation of clouds, and we were still high up enough to capture them. We stopped for a while to wait for more color to come into the sky and it was so peaceful and beautiful - we felt like we were the only people in the world! This is a view of the nearby quarry. I used my new Canon 10-22mm lens with my Manfrotto monopod (love it!). I was also using a 25% neutral graduated filter. This photo is comprised of six shots - three exposures for sky and three exposures for land. The sky and land shots were blended separately in Photomatrix then hand-stitched in Photoshop.

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Large on black | Prints of this photo | All available prints | My website

Skylar and I had a great day Saturday hiking through Mitchell Canyon in the Mt. Diablo State Park (Northern California). We took a trail full of switchbacks up as high as we could until exhaustion and impending sunset forced us to turn around. I think we were probably very close to the summit but we didn’t start out early enough in the day to make it.

Even though we didn’t make it to the top, our timing was great because on the way down there was an increasingly glorious formation of clouds, and we were still high up enough to capture them. We stopped for a while to wait for more color to come into the sky and it was so peaceful and beautiful - we felt like we were the only people in the world!

This is a view of the nearby quarry. I used my new Canon 10-22mm lens with my Manfrotto monopod (love it!). I was also using a 25% neutral graduated filter.

This photo is comprised of six shots - three exposures for sky and three exposures for land. The sky and land shots were blended separately in Photomatrix then hand-stitched in Photoshop.

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