Scattered Thoughts . . .

S hortly after we arrived at the Crater Lake Lodge, I captured a series of photos to stitch together to create a panoramic view of the whole width of Crater Lake.  I knew that this would be a good place to start in explaining some landmarks as well as some of the places we visited.   This panorama is a full 180° wide...  with the lodge on my left and Garfield Peak to my right...  we are on the south rim facing north, roughly... I had an ultra-wide angle lens with me but even that very wide lens couldn't fit the whole crater in my field of view while at the lodge. While on some of the surrounding peaks, I was almost able to fit the whole crater in my field of view but still not quite.  The answer was to capture a series of images, left to right, and then stitch those images together once we arrived back home.  And, even though I shot this handheld, it came out well. To get the full 180°, I needed to capture six images in portrait orientation.  I si...

A s I've written here previously, my plan for while we were at Crater Lake was to capture a photo of the Milky Way.  Unfortunately, the weather did not cooperate on the single night we had at Crater Lake.   The clouds had rolled in as the sun was beginning to set and, by the time the sky was inky black, the sky was completely obscured by clouds.   I should point out that our original plan was to only do a day trip to Crater Lake and then head back to Klamath Falls at the end of the day.  I got to checking out the lodge online while Sheila was at work after we had talked about this added day trip and luckily fell into a single night availability for one of their loft suites overlooking the lake.  This little change allowed us to cancel one night at a hotel in Klamath Falls and have Adam and Joi join us in the Crater Lake Lodge suite for a night.  This provided us with two full days at Crater Lake but only one night for nighttime photography.  ...