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SCENIC
SECOND PLACE
Signs of spring
Jelm Mountain, Albany County
Lance Faulkner | Laramie, Wyoming
Canon EOS R5; 1/80 sec,
f/22, ISO 125
O
ver the past few years,
photography has become
the hobby I most often use to
de-stress. Getting out to see what my
part of the world has to offer that I can
capture on camera, whether digital or
film, has been a recent obsession of
mine. Being in Wyoming affords many
opportunities for nice images that
couldn't be captured anywhere else.
On this particular afternoon, I ventured
somewhere I hadn't ever been - the top
of Jelm Mountain - where the University
of Wyoming's infrared observatory is
located. It was early June and nearly all
the snow on the road had melted, leaving
just a few muddy patches on a relatively
easy mountain road. I made it to the
summit just before some rain showers
blew through, leaving the Laramie Valley
to the east dappled with patches of warm
sunlight glowing through the advancing
cloud cover. The arrowleaf balsamroot
and other wildflowers were blossoming
all over the mountain, but this bunch had
the greatest view of them all, making
for a great foreground element for this
photo. For a majority of my photography, I
tend to shoot wide open - giving a nice,
shallow depth of field - but with these
conditions I decided to stop down to f22
to leave the whole of the valley in focus
to show off the lovely light. The image
turned out how I had envisioned and
made for a fantastic cap on an afternoon
filled with great, 360-degree views.
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