At 14,505 feet, Mt. Whitney is the tallest mountain in the Sierra Nevada Range and in the United States outside of Alaska. After two nights camping at the Whitney Portal campgrounds, I attempted to summit Whitney in one day, hiking the “Mountaineer’s Route” on a day permit. Although one too many misidentified landmarks and wrong turns put the summit out of reach, I was still able to enjoy and photograph the breathtaking and gigantic landscape.
“And after ten years of wandering and wondering in the heart of it, rejoicing in its glorious floods of light, the white beams of the morning streaming through the passes, the noonday radiance on the crystal rocks, the flush of the alpenglow, and the irised spray of countless waterfalls, it still seems above all others the Range of Light.”
– John Muir
In an attempt to capture the full range of intensities accompanying the corporeal experience of a new landscape, this album along with the rest in my Sierra series explores the extraction of detail and color from scenes in the area of the Sierra Nevada of Eastern California though high dynamic range (HDR) images.
