Bob Marshall Wilderness, Montana (Sigma DP2s, ISO 50, f/11, 1.6 sec.)
Waking up to this is not a bad gig, but this is what I had to work with on Friday morning.
The problem with this view is that I could see it out of the window as I taught an indoor class for a couple of hours Friday, and it was distracting.
However, I had the opportunity to pack everyone up so we could actually walk towards, and behind that big mountain.
It's called the Walling Reef (to the right) and is one of the most fantastic limestone cliff reefs in the Bob Marshall Wilderness. The mountain to the left of it is also a big deal, it's called Old Man of the Hills, and it's an easy climb to the summit. Traversing the Walling Reef, on the other hand - that's for goats - but there's a good bench hidden on the E side of the crest with a Class 3 entry/exit to the south that's doable, but a little scary and exposed.
In the middle of the two is that big canyon, the North Fork Dupuyer Creek. That was our target, and we spent Friday night back up in there, tucked neatly into the Wilderness Area.
Is this multiple images stitched together or is it cropped? If it was stitched, what tools did you use?
Posted by: Bryan Cook | May 25, 2010 at 06:18 PM
Hi Bryan, this was a crop. However, I did take a few panoramas on this trip and may publish one or two of them here if they turn out OK. I use Photoshop CS4, and stitch them there, but it doesn't work so well unless I have a longer focal length lens like the DP2, which doesn't vignette. With the DP1, a little bit of vignetting makes it tough sometimes.
Posted by: ryan jordan | May 25, 2010 at 08:27 PM