Admiring Mt. Baker Summer

Haven't been to Mt. Baker much and must change that. This was my first time to Artists Point. Obviously I wasn't the only one admiring the view.

D200, 24-120 @ 24mm, handheld. ISO 400, f11, 1/320.
ACR then CS3: cleaned up the snow in the fg, local curves adj, sharpening.

This would make a nice stock shot with the road and the solitary person (providing a sense of scale). Still a surprising amount of snow up there. There are also great views of Shuksan up on Kulshan Ridge and, of course, along Highwood and Picture Lakes.

Beautiful shot, I like the road and dude in there for scale. I need to get myself up there sometime soon.

Really nice capture. I like how the image almost glows.

Nice image Catherine, what a great since of scale..

Beautiful, Catherine. One of my favorite places in the world.

Catherine,
Very cool image. Is this right by the ski area? It looks like the road I ran during a ski to sea run I did a couple of years ago.

Catherine, your processing has really taken a couple of steps up lately. This one is spot on in all regards. Next, yes, handheld is nice and fun and fast, but I'll bet that if you blew this one up to 20x30 you would start finding problems. I see a tripod in your future.

Great shot! Never been there, although I saw the mountain everyday when I used to live in Vancouver, BC.
I would try to remove the haze and increase the contrast. There is a simple technique for the haze removal with the Unsharp Mask: set the amount to 40% and move the radius slider to the maximum right.
I tried the technique on your image and it worked really great.
But still a great photo!

Interesting technique, Cezar.

Thanks for the comments and suggestions, everyone.
Hey, Mark, have a tripod, which I use 95% of the time. Didn't want to carry anything extra while walking on slippery melting snow. I don't have good enough boots or balance for that.
I sure appreciate it when people share processing tips with me. Especially recently, it has helped a lot. But PLEASE consider this an official request to NOT TAKE MY IMAGES OFF THIS SITE WITHOUT MY PERMISSION. I am probably more sensitive about this than others. Nevertheless, please just let me know and ask me if it's ok. I don't mess with anyone's stuff, here. Please grant me the same respect.
And thank you again, most sincerely for helping me to improve my work.

I must have read Cezar's technique incorrectly - when I tried that on an image, moving the radius slider to the "maximum right" produced a freakish, over-saturated image! But moving it just a bit worked okay.

Tom

Tom, the amount must be very low: about 30-40%.

Catherine, I did NOT take your image OFF your site anywhere. It was a temporary operation in the memory.