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A mountain stream rushes through a green pasture on the Belalp mountain range in the Swiss Alps.
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Dappled sunlight brings even more magic and drama to the Grenzgletscher Glacier near Zermatt, Switzerland.
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Slight Side, with Scafell emerging from cloud. Photographed from Border End in the English Lake District.
Loggia from XVII century facing Gran Sasso Mountain Range
Located in Frattoli, (elev 1122m.) Abruzzo, Italy, the Loggia is part of the Church of S.Giovanni Battista, built in 14th century
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A burst of light over Yr Aran 747m, Snowdonia, one of the subsidiary tops of Snowdon.
It feels sooo brilliant to be back in the mountains whenever I can, like a renaissance ... And it is even better when there is some mountain light!
💫 Selected for Flickr Explore on June 2nd, 2025
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Between two shadows, the afternoon sun bathes the slopes of the Hautes-Alpes in gold and turquoise.
A moment of silence captured above the Serre-Ponçon lake, where light sculpts the valley with infinite softness.
Entre deux ombres, le soleil d’après-midi dore les pentes des Hautes-Alpes de reflets turquoise et lumineux.
Un instant de calme au-dessus du lac de Serre-Ponçon, où la lumière sculpte la vallée avec une infinie douceur.
Early morning light on the Glyderau as seen from the climb up to Crib Goch on a memorable day a few years ago. The clouds began to gather at both low level and higher level, blown in from the sea on a moist breeze, and they helped to frame and accentuate the mountains. If you want to appreciate the scale, you can just make out a white bus down in the valley below, approaching the top of the pass below Glyder Fawr. This is the stuff that great mountain days are made of. Please zoom in and have a look around.
Pyrenees HRP 2011 - Day 16: Wayne heads into the mist zone as we descend from Lac Gentau. It was about where he is standing that he exclaimed on seeing the fogbow.
Upper Eskdale photographed from Green Crag. Bow Fell central with Esk Pike to the left and Crinkle Crags on the right.
I waited for this moment when storm clouds wrapped around the summit of Dent d'Orlu, creating an atmosphere both threatening and majestic. The contrast between the austere rock face and the verdant slopes particularly struck me. A break in the clouds illuminated the mountain face, revealing its mineral texture, while the dark skies reinforced its monumental presence. I wanted to capture this dramatic mood that so perfectly reflects the wild character of the Ariège Pyrenees.
Mt. Rainier National park, WA.
I have heard of Alpenglow but never experienced it firsthand before. After setting up this shot from the popular Tipsoo Lake, we waited for the first light to hit the tip of Mt. Rainer. Then suddenly, before the sunrise, the rocks in front of Mt. Rainier started glowing red, then a pink band of Alpenglow appeared at the bottom of the mountain and finally the tip of Mt. Rainier got the first glow of light. Oh what an experience that was! It took me a while to figure out what I experienced that day. It was the perfect ‘Mountain Light’ at its full glory!
Alpenglow is a scattering phenomenon that occurs when the sun is below the horizon and is clearly visible at higher elevation. Tipsoo Lake at 5300ft seems like an ideal place to observe this phenomenon.
To make it even more dramatic, I quote John Muir below….
“Long, blue, spiky-edged shadows crept out across the snow-fields, while a rosy glow, at first scarce discernible, gradually deepened and suffused every mountain-top, flushing the glaciers and the harsh crags above them. This was the alpenglow, to me the most impressive of all the terrestrial manifestations of God. At the touch of this divine light, the mountains seemed to kindle to a rapt, religious consciousness, and stood hushed like devout worshippers waiting to be blessed.”
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Gunsite Peak, Oregon - touched by the light. This was shot with an 70-200f2.8. Click on the bottom photo for the story.
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My alarm sounded just past 6:00a, and my hiking companion with whom I was sharing a tent did not stir after telling me the night before that he would be interested in shadowing my morning pilgrimage to the terminus of Glaciar Grey. I took this to mean he had changed his mind, and I dressed and extricated myself from the tent as quietly as possible, making sure to avoid stepping in the vomitus we discovered in the trees nearby the previous night. The camp at Refugio Grey, full of boisterous inhabitants a handful of hours earlier, had finally descended into the calm of the small hours of the morning, when even young people fall silent. Alone, I made my way out to the spit of land facing north toward the confluence of the immense tongue of glacial ice and the milky waters of the lake.
My spirits sank a little as I walked because the clouds from the previous day’s small storm were stubbornly clinging to the mountains, and the sun appeared to be bested in its attempts to illuminate the new day. I briefly entertained the idea of turning back to my warm down bag, but a nagging suspicion told me I likely would not return to sleep, so the best bet would be to wait and watch. I am not good at finding a composition, setting myself up, and staying put while I wait. For reasons unknown to me, I am constantly convinced that a more striking vista and a better vantage must lie just over yonder, wherever ‘yonder’ happens to be. So although I found a beautiful view of the glacier, I gave in to my predilections and set out to explore the spit as I “waited” for the signature transition of sunrise.
I did not have long to follow my legs, as the southern sun apparently had tricks up its sleeve. Despite the cloud cover, the light burrowed into the clouds draping the mountain, and began to light up over the glacier (see previous post ‘Where the Cold Wind Flies’). I thought immediately of Galen Rowell’s book “Mountain Light” that my wife bought for me when I was 22, a book that was an inspiration to me to begin to learn more about the art of photography in wild places. The book speaks of the sanctity and special power of the world’s mountains, and the self-transformation that occurs while spending time in their proximity. Rowell was quoted as saying: “You only get one sunrise and one sunset a day, and only so many days on the planet. A good photographer does the math and doesn’t waste either.” Rowell is dead now, and it is this sense of the relatively limited time we get, whether it be a sunrise or a human life, that sears moments such as these into my memory.
Bavarian Alps
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Last light at Svinafellsjokull.
This was the last hoorah, as the sun was going down, subtle pink/red light striking the distant mountain top with the clag lighting up in pink tones, it was a good evening out in Iceland, contrasting with the shapes of the glacial formation below!
A summit view looking across the valley of Stormy afternoon light in the High Peaks of the Adirondacks.
an evening in late summer from the crest of north fork mountain overlooking the river knobs and the high alleghenies in the west
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