Newberry Caldera at sunset

Taken from Paulina Peak (8,000 ft). The comp leaves a bit to be desired, but I really like the light on this.

Paulina Lake is on the left and East Lake is on the right. From this vantage point, you can see more than 11 snow-capped mountains. I'm afraid I can only name 11 of them though: Bachelor, Broken Top, Three Sisters, 3-Finger Jack, Washington, Jefferson, Hood, St Helens, and Adams.

For those not familiar with the area, what looks like a lava flow in the lower right, is actually The Big Obsidian Flow. That sucker is huge. I have a few images from inside the flow that I'll post if they turn out.

I don't have the techs available at the moment. I'll try to remember to post them tonight when I get home. I got home about 5 Sunday, unloaded the truck, defunked myself, and began working through some of my shots from the 5-day trip. I didn't get far before I hit the brick wall and went to bed :(

Canon 300D
18-55 kit lens @ 18mm
ISO 400 (grrrr!!!)

Cool. I love this place but have never found it to be really photogenic. The two snow-capped peaks missing in your description are Thielsen and Diamond Peak.

Whats really bizare, is the fact I had just talked to a friend in Albany on Yahoo messenger, and just got off a few mins before I first saw this post... and he had just been over at Palina either yesturday or over the weekend... I wasn't completely sure where it was, strange coincidence...

That kit lens sure does distort at the wide end doesn't it... quite a bit of curvature on the horizon there... I can see why it's not very photogenic, fairly monocromatic scene, and not much to put for a foreground... looks like you got a pretty good capture though with the color in the sky and what not... Always hate those spots that have such great views, but don't photograph well.... not familiar with this spot, but curious if it might have been a good spot for a pano, looks like theres probably some good views for it... which just gave me an idea for a possible pano here in vegas tonight... hmm

Curtis,
Theres nothing wrong with this shot. I think it gives a good perspective of the area. The warm evening light really makes it.

Thanks guys, I'm luke warm with the image overall. I'll print it to see how it looks on paper, but I'd rather have some clouds in the sky and there are some cool snags down to the right that would have made great FG material. Darn, I guess I'll have to go back and try again

William, Saturday morning, I shot pano frames, at 70mm and 2 degree increments, of all the mountains from Bachelor to Adams, but the sun didn't do what I expected (go figure) so I didn't have the alpenlight I hoped for, but if they successfully stitch together, I'll post it.

So far I've never gotten more than 2 or 3 frames together successfully, so I hope this time I overlapped enough.

Post those images from the obsidian flow, it's another world in there, I was in Bend a month ago and was disappointed that I couldn't get up there.

I'll gradually post all my comps of the obsidian flow as a series Eric. I don't think there is anything spectacular, but there is a lot of interesting material, and folks who haven't been there can see what it's like.