The Golden Hours in the Throne Room of the Mountain Gods
by Mac Griffin
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| Tangerine Dream |
"There is no question that photography has played a major role in the environmental movement."
"The landscape is like being there with a powerful personality and I'm searching for just the right angles to make that portrait come across as meaningfully as possible."
- Galen Rowell
The Quay never ceases to amaze me for its almost unbelievable sunsets, sunrises, and even its daytime views. Every night when it's clear (and sometimes even when it's not) I go out to the Quay for what the Crag Camp Caretaker and I call the 'Evening Program.' Every night it's a new show, sometimes the drama is intense, other times an unexpected glow illuminates the clouds rosy pink purple magenta fuchsia grenadine tangerine at the very last minute in an enthralling plot twist. And there's almost always an encore of the glowing halogen-white moon and the shining beacon of Venus bright as a pearl, both highlighted in the fading light of the cerulean blue upper sky.
So please enjoy some more sunrise and sunset photos from my last stint on the mythical and sublime Nowell Ridge... But please remember, words hardly do this place justice. Looks like you'll just have to come to the Throne Room of the Mountain Gods for yourself. Cheers!
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| Mordor? |
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| Red Grenadine |
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| The elusive Spacecar Narwhal floating by.... |
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| The sun actually set about two minutes before this, and the yellow dots are actually reflections of the sun! |
Of course, it's not always sunsets, these clouds really impressed me as well!
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| Thunderheads over the Kilkenny |
But as it happened, last Saturday morning 8/3 I managed to drag myself out of the Caretaker's Room at Gray Knob and capture this absolutely stunning sunrise!
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| Facing East |
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| Above the clouds for the sunrise is hard to beat! |
Mac
Cormac N. Griffin
Gray Knob Caretaker
Spring/Summer 2013
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