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

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 😉

Is it not so, that, as in Austria and Switzerland, etc, where there are also snow capped mountains, the amount of snow on Mt. Shasta is diminishing every year at present?

David

@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)

Wien is in the Donau valley with the land rising to the west. To the east (Burgenland, towards Hungary and Slovakia) is pretty flat. There is Kahlenberg (a mere 484 m) just north of the city and Schneeberg (2000 m) about 80km to the south of Wien; but the real mountains are some way further south and west from Wien.

Now you are talking!

David

There is an interesting downloadable pdf file with more about the Heiligenkreuz sundial than you probably want to know. The design is highly symbolic. At 7 metres tall the gnomon is even larger than I estimated. Although the surface looks like glass, it is actually highly polished steel. I must return when the sun shines again!

David

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. 😎

So, here are my (very consistent) thoughts on sharpness, in image form 😂:

Frankly, sharpness is... everything! by simple.joy, on Flickr

Frankly, sharpness is... meaningless! by simple.joy, on Flickr

@simplejoy, The frist one does made me think about a few I made a while ago.
(shooting with a shallow DOF is fun)

Fresh leaves by Photobygms, on Flickr
(Canon EOS 6D Mark II - EF24mm f/1.4L II USM)

Some leaves by Photbygms, on Flickr
(Canon EOS 5D Mark IV - EF135mm f/2L USM)

Simplyjoy,

I like the sharpness of the leaf in first one. For the second picture, I keep wondering what it is.