Your Canon Photos No. 13: 30th July to 5th August 2023

Thanks David. We were lucky that we did not have forest fire smoke this year at Lake Tahoe. On some days, it was a little hazy, although.

In the car, I'm able to take pictures as a passenger. It's challenging with everything moving so fast. Sometimes I do try to open the window to get a clear photo, but other times I have no choice but to take them through the glass. I try to find a clean spot in the window. On this trip, I discovered a new way to take them from the car as a passenger. I was able to open the window, put the wrist strap on, open the window, use the tilt screen and take pictures with the camera/lens pointed slightly backwards. So instead of straining the neck to take a picture behind me, the tilt screen makes it easy.

Yes, I encouraged the bird to move up to a branch void of leaves with the blue sky as a background.

David,

I find your pictures fascinating. We get a good history lesson too. It's amazing sometimes how people who may have wealth actually can be unhappy. So we know wealth and money is not what makes us all happy, but a lot of people have told me that they would sure like to try it out. 😀

David,

I liked your Holy Cross Monastery shots, especially the framed shot.

I don't know what the mosaic is supposed to depict, but when I blow it up, I can count at least 7 faces in it - all very demon-like.

Steve Thomas

Photobygyms,

I liked your bird silhouette. Very Edgar Allen Poeish.

Steve Thomas

Very nice series!
The highway shot really puts the size of the mountain into perspective.

So is the snow a leftover from the winter months or does it also snow up there in summer (it looks pretty high up so I imagine it would be freezing cold year round)?

Cheers
Paul

An interesting and sad history but great images to go with it.

Cheers
Paul

Fotoword (Paul),

Thanks. Most of the snow is from the autumn, winter and spring months. Being that the top of the mountain is over 14,000 feet high, it can snow year round (from what I read), but that would not happen very much in the summer.

Paul,

I had the privilege of climbing Mt. Shasta once. We camped out on a glacier at the top, and I was fortunate to experience the thrill of seeing a full moon from 14,000 feet up.

it was as big as a house!

Steve Thomas

Great shots! I didn't even know the story of Rudolf, even though I'm from Austria. 😅 Read up a little bit on him. Unfortunately it all sounds very plausible... 😢 Oh, what a wonderful and at the same time deeply embarassing country Austria is...

Those pictures do make me want to go back to the Alps (austria) or the Canadian Rockies, do miss the mountains, could it be because I'm a Capricorn (Astrological sign)
And some nice almost close ups with that black bird 😉

@davidwien I'm I right with thinking the Wien region has not those hight mountains like in Ötztal (With the Wildspitze on top)
But seems even with lower mountains a nice region to visit one day!
About the 150-600: it has seen many places (Canada, Iceland, Scotland, Austria) and has been used a lot, I'm not sad it served me well 😁 (thinking about the 60-600 as a replacement)

Photobygms,

I'm glad you liked seeing Mt. Shasta and the black bird. It was a fun time traveling on vacation.

David,

On Mt. Shasta the amount of snow increased this year and the surrounding lakes are full again. We did have a terrible drought in that region. It's possible that the mountain glaciers are diminishing overall...not sure about that...might be a part of global warming.

Steve,

That's neat to know you climbed to the top of Mt. Shasta. That must have been a thrilling experience.

Vacation (or holidays) are the best times for traveling. The time off, no stress and enjoying everything you encounter. 😎