Monjeau Peak Lookout

[Basil]

I drove down to Monjeau Peak in southest New Mexico this weekend with the intention of taking some Milky Way photos with the "stone lookout" in the foreground. When I got there I discovered two problems. First, the road to the actual tower was closed and second, forrest fires in the state were causing a lot of smoke and haze so Milky Way pictures probably would not have worked out well.

However, I did manage to get some mountain landscape images since, with the smoke and haze, it reminded me of the Smokey Mountains. Here are a few examples, including one I processed as B&W.

 

[John Turney]

Those look great. It was also clearer than our sky here.

 

[Basil]

Those look great. It was also clearer than our sky here.

I can't imagine what your skies are like.

 

[John Turney]

I can't imagine what your skies are like.

When it's at its worse, we can't see the hill a mile away, just a tan sky.

 

[pdplot]

Now those are mountains. We have a few here as well. Mt. Mitchell in NC and Camelback in Vermont.

 

[NutmegCT]

Basil, those are really fine photos. Beautiful to admire.

If you have a high resolution version of that last photo, I'd like to buy, print, frame, and display it here at home.

Tom M.

 

[GregW]

Nice shots Basil. I think I like #2 the most.

 

[DrEntropy]

Nice shots Basil. I think I like #2 the most.

Very nice.

 

[Basil]

Nice shots Basil. I think I like #2 the most.

#3, 5 and 6 are the ones I was most happy with.

 

[Basil]

Basil, those are really fine photos. Beautiful to admire.

If you have a high resolution version of that last photo, I'd like to buy, print, frame, and display it here at home.

Tom M.

You should have an email from me :wink-new: