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canyonwalkerLast week Saturday afternoon we drove through Mt. Rainier National Park east to west making numerous stops along the way. Most of these were planned or at least willing; we stopped for trails we wanted to hike and at places that looked interesting. A few were unplanned and unwilling. As we drove the park road through Stevens Canyon there were a few stops due to construction and one-way traffic.
Once we got through Stevens Canyon and started to climb up the other side the cause for these delays became more apparent.
Looking back across Stevens Canyon we can see that the road is not so much a road as a tiny little shelf carved into a mountainside. There's 1,000 feet of rock above it and 1,000' feet of rock below it. Those places where slides have damaged the road? That's not just road damage, those are gullies that run from earth to sky.
The second thing that's cool about stopping at this spot is that I got to use all three lenses for my camera. The wide vista above I photographed with my super-wide zoom lens at 10mm. (My Fuji X-T3 camera uses an APS-C format sensor, so a 10mm lens on it gives a field of view equal to a 15mm lens on a 35mm film camera or "full frame" digital. 15mm is still hella wide.) Most of the pictures I captured earlier in the day at Silver Falls, Box Canyon, and not-Cougar Falls were with my cheapo mid-range zoom. As I'd been carrying the heavy, expensive super-wide lens around all day I was glad for the opportunity to use its unique capability.
That said, there are still plenty of times to use a mid-range zoom. A photo like this one (above) frames Mt. Rainier rising over Stevens Canyon nicely.
Wait, what's that toward the right side of the frame, below the treeline but at the top of Stevens Canyon?
It's a waterfall. Actually, it's a triple waterfall. And I can get a good view— and a good photograph of it— courtesy of the other heavy piece of kit I've been lugging around all day with no opportunity 'til now to use, my telephoto lens.
In beauty I walk... even when I stand a mile away and view it through a scope.
Once we got through Stevens Canyon and started to climb up the other side the cause for these delays became more apparent.
Looking back across Stevens Canyon we can see that the road is not so much a road as a tiny little shelf carved into a mountainside. There's 1,000 feet of rock above it and 1,000' feet of rock below it. Those places where slides have damaged the road? That's not just road damage, those are gullies that run from earth to sky.
The second thing that's cool about stopping at this spot is that I got to use all three lenses for my camera. The wide vista above I photographed with my super-wide zoom lens at 10mm. (My Fuji X-T3 camera uses an APS-C format sensor, so a 10mm lens on it gives a field of view equal to a 15mm lens on a 35mm film camera or "full frame" digital. 15mm is still hella wide.) Most of the pictures I captured earlier in the day at Silver Falls, Box Canyon, and not-Cougar Falls were with my cheapo mid-range zoom. As I'd been carrying the heavy, expensive super-wide lens around all day I was glad for the opportunity to use its unique capability.
That said, there are still plenty of times to use a mid-range zoom. A photo like this one (above) frames Mt. Rainier rising over Stevens Canyon nicely.
Wait, what's that toward the right side of the frame, below the treeline but at the top of Stevens Canyon?
It's a waterfall. Actually, it's a triple waterfall. And I can get a good view— and a good photograph of it— courtesy of the other heavy piece of kit I've been lugging around all day with no opportunity 'til now to use, my telephoto lens.
In beauty I walk... even when I stand a mile away and view it through a scope.
