Tag: Mt St Helens

My Oldest Image

Mt St Helens from Spirit Lake, June 1961

I don’t have a lot of images from when I was a kid … this is one of the few. I went with my Aunt Maisie and Uncle Dave up to Spirit Lake at Mt St Helens in June 1961. The top section of St Helens is now AWOL and Spirit Lake is totally different. The boat trip was a charter boat we took for a ride around the lake. The funny part of the camping trip was our arrival late at night on Friday. We set up camp in the dark, where we could find an open spot. We woke to find we had pitched our tent in the parking lot.

By the way, my Uncle Dave was who got me seriously interested in photography. This was about the time that he set me up with a darkroom and gave me his old Argus C-3 35mm rangefinder. However, this image was taken with a Kodak Brownie (a Hawkeye, I believe).

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Mt St Helens

Mt St Helens, with first snow, 22Oct2016
Mt St Helens, with first snow, 22Oct2016

I had a nice clear day in October with no plans. I decided to go visit Mt St Helens for the first time in years.

I was particularly lucky in being there on a clear day without haze. And just after the first snowfall of the year.

It was really windy. I was being blown around enough that I used a tripod. I set the zoom at about 100mm and took a series of 7 images and used Photoshop to stitch them together. There is an incredible amount of detail. I had a 24×60 print made that is on the wall above my work table.

Camera: Nikon D810
Lens: Nikon 28-300mm set at 98mm
ISO 100    1/400sec    f/8
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