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WOW! This is a magical scene with fantastic light! The composition is wonderful with lots of interest in the fore, middle, and background. I do not see too much magenta on my monitor. Absolutely stunning! My only nit is that you didn't post any specs or a larger version to enjoy.

PS: Also love the adventurous trek getting there!

Wow... this is the spot we were thinking about going last year huh. What an incredible image, Marc. Before long there won't be many dramatic peaks in the PNW that you haven't shot to perfection!

Yes it was. This was my second wintertime visit to the south ridge and fifth overall winter visit to TFJ. It's just so hard to get the conditions right. It's either so stormy you can't see or totally clear - rarely anything in-between on the crest, as it all changes so fast.

Love the recent images Marc. This is well balanced and the light looks fantastic! This image instills a perfect sense of warmth in a brutally cold scene. As for the color, I am not on a calibrated monitor, so I can't comment on that at the moment.

Excellent work Marc. Some of the blues look a tad strong (work monitor so take this with a grain of salt) especially on the shadow side of the mountain, but that is so minor. This has got to be a new favorite mine. The warm light is delicious.

Oh that is magnificent, love the 4x5 format too.

Beautiful! Amazing light and conditions Marc, and you captured it so well. The colors look great on my monitor.

Nick Bristol
Lone Rock, WI

Dude! This is amazing. I'm with Floris...you're gonna have to find some new peaks to shoot Keep 'em coming.

Wonderful lighting. I like foreground snow covered tree sharing similar shape as background mountain.

We've got plenty of peaks, accessibility is the issue. I'd love to see anyone shoot from the upper ridges next to Mt.Thielsen, early season before the avy danger goes through the roof after new snow falls. That peak is even more dramatic than this! Sometimes it's like, 'well...that would be a great place to shoot, but the chances of dying are pretty high'...

I knew this was yours the second I saw it. Fantastic stunning image here Marc (might piss off the disturbed jealous type). What is not too like? Great composition, subject matter, lighting is fabulous, looks sharp, looks like processing was conservative... It also brings back memories of climbing this when I was a teen with my dad (although no snow on it at that time). Killer! Thanks for posting it and the inspiration.

As far as monitors go, unless calibrated effectively most, I find, lean WAY toward magenta. Goes without saying that any fine tuned critique needs to be on a good, and well calibrated monitor. This does not look too magenta to me.

Superb image- wonderful mood- Composition and treatment of light couldn't be better than this- Great job, Fabio

This is quite stunning Marc! For me this image take a rather unique spot in your portfolio. All your trademarcs (yes with a "c") are here, but in a fresh and highly appealing way. Beautiful stuff that keeps me looking for very long time.

Beautiful shot Marc. Not too magenta on my monitor - looks great.

Amazing light and a very strong composition.

What a composition... beautiful work. The texture to the FG snow is really nice, and a bit different than the smooth, featureless snow in some of your other winter images.

Beautiful light, I love the ridge-line up to the peak! I wouldn't mind seeing the peak off-centered to the right a bit more as well as a bit more space on the left.

Love the soft quality of light and mixture of lines captured here. There's a nice triangular tension between the peak, the fg tree and the sunlit snow line in the lower corners. Very nice!

Unbelievable. Images like this make me want to keep trying. Congrats. This is right up there with your best, might be my favorite winter image from you.

One of your best, Marc. Quiet beauty, beautifully captured.

Stunning Marc. Color looks good for me.

Lon

The light and view are wonderful and the composition really draws me in.

Gary.

Well Marc, you got some amazing lines and forms here. Particularly your lines on this photo really jump at me, so well defined, clear and simple yet not ordinary in any way.

That's a lovely image Marc with a really nice composition and light. that mountain is a teriffic shape and I love the way the mountain swirls around in one direction and the foreground tree mimics it in reverse to the other corner.

I think what gets me in this photo is the comp, the colours and light are fantastic as always. The tree in the foreground is awesome then you see the trees in the valley that lead to the trees on the ridge and then up to the peak, just perfect alignment ,genius Marc. I wont comment on the colour because I am not on a perfectly calibrated professional monitor Cheers

I'd crop 10% off the top (assuming no more canvas available on the right)
Color looks perfect IMO. With the right conversion (in 32 bits to prevent posterization by rounding errors), IMHO, this would make an even better B/W.

You ever yell at the top of your lungs when up there? You know, to hear the faint echos...

I haven't, Matt. The landscape is enough for me to listen to. My thought on B&W is that if you have warm, soft, sunset light then why change it? I had similar conditions on this mountain once before: B&W

What I really like is the great light on the peak. I have a new monitor coming this week and cannot wait to see it on a really good monitor. Would love to see a larger version. A couple of days hike to get the shot! That is the supreme effort and thanks for the inspiration.

Love that photo (you linked). Hence my email query earlier ...
Good point, but I'm a sucker for a traditional B/W as well.
I errantly said if you had more canvas on the right, I meant left. (Dyslexic typer) So the spacing on the left tree could be near the spacing on the top, creating a better comp IMHO. Either way, this image is quite strong as is. The solitude in a place like this, I can only imagine, it's been months.

A surreal beautiful landscape Marc. The warmth and intensity of lines and light make the very different. Love it!

This is stunning, Marc.

- Dan.

Wonderful composition, Marc! I can imagine that it was just a tad bit more than a nippy evening!! Nice lighting for the warm glow. No magenta cast here, as it looks great the way it is!!! Well done, Marc.

Not too much magenta on my screen. It's a gorgeous winter scene. You were blessed with a beautiful opportunity.

Chris

Breathtaking imagery! What perfect light, scene and techs. Keep 'em coming.

SICK SHOT!

DOF-wise, it's a little flatter than most of your images, but the lighting and subject matter are simply sublime. I quite like it.

You definitely deserve this one, Marc. Amazing light and endurance.

superb - everything working here. i might have been inclined to twist the camera a touch to the left.

Amazing place, I like the contrast between warm light and - as I can presume - low temperature. Wonder about some more space on the left, but this is a minor issue.

Igor

STELLER I like how the curve in the foreground shadow matches the curve in the mountain ridge I agree, with this warm light, why go to B&W. I need to get to this stuff up here in Whistler!! A Helicopter would come in handy !!

Nice light, shadows and dreaminess.

Marc,
this is absolutely phantastic!
Its all about being at the right time at the right place and there is no better way in capturing this beautiful scenery! One of my favorites in your stunning collection.

All the best from Hamburg, Germany,
Christian.

Wonderful once again, Marc. The composition is very strong in here and the light is as good as one wants it to be. No magenta problems on my (calibrated) screen. In fact, I could even live with a bit more magenta in the shadow areas.

A classic Adamus. Looks perfect to me. Either you sold your soul to the Devil or you do your homework and are persistent and determined. I'm betting/hoping it's the latter

Hi Marc,
At 2am I saw the thumbnail and I thought it was cloudscape. I said "I'd better see this again tomorrow"
But what can I say? The scene is incredible, everything is white and the light is just magical I love the composition with that beautiful tree perfectly placed on the left.
I hate to say it's perfect because it doesn't help you. But it is.

Thanks Luis, get some sleep already! I got lucky on this day but I always say, the perfect photo is always still out there.

Adamusical art

I knew this was your image the second I saw the thumbnail. Absolutely epic. Doesn't go magenta on my monitor, at least not overly so. What astonishing light complimented by a perfect composition

Brilliant shot Marc, dramatic as always

Gotta love this view. Great work here Marc!

Every time I make the trip to Crater Lk I want to hike up Thielson's se ridge. Such a dramatic peak.

Thanks, Tyson. I know you know what the view up here is like! I was sharing your pics with some guys on P.Net that were asking about the trip up here. BTW, I think Thielsen's N ridge would be the best perspective. I've done it several times before the avy danger got bad and it looked extremely productive, I just had bad weather.

Wonderful winter backcountry scene, Marc. Love your use of layers and diagonal lines. You could make a book out of just the 3FJ images that you already have in your portfolio

Looking forward to seeing this area in person!

The north ridge would be a good spot. Thielson's profile is beautiful from that aspect. I believe the Oregon PCT hits its highest point right around there, or possibly a few miles beyond. I would love to see this peak up close in winter. Summer is great though, too. There is some great tasting water on the north side.

The light makes it all here, Marc. I love how elegantly every part of the image is lit.

Great shot!

Floats my boat...fantastic work again...

Ian

Another superb shot Marc. Love the compositional balance and the lighting. Definitely worth the effort.

Hi Marc,
Another great image! I really like the leading shadow lines. They almost form an S curve even though they are in two different locations. Its a great compositional echo. Thanks for posting it!

Such a moment captured. Seems the optimal time for light, clouds clearing and recent snowfall. Amazing shot, and the light puts it over the top.

Really beautiful image Marc! My future uncle in law keeps telling me that he wants to snowmobile me around this area, but our timing hasnt coincided yet...and the window is closing for this season.

Rick, you can't snowmobile around this area at all. It's all preserved as wilderness. The wilderness boundary is only a fourth of a mile from Santiam Pass. Gotta hike it all, and that's the beauty of it! Were you thinking of Broken Top or something instead?

Superb photo Marc.

Perfect composition Marc. Beautiful color and tone. I shot 4x5 for fifteen years and really miss that shape when shooting verticals.

This is heaven, Marc! This photo has it all. Conditions and location could not get any better. Lovely, lovely!

Wow. Simply phenomenal. Nothing I can add that hasn't been said already.

Marc: Spectacular light and an awesome capture. >=))>

Surprised no one has mentioned it but it appears to me that it's leaning slightly towards the right. It's the horizon on the right beyond the peak that gives me this impression. Could just be an artifact of the portrait orientation, though.

Love this one marc .. really pure composition ;)

Marc, I keep hoping this image will disappear as it haunts me. I can't tell you how much time I've spent looking at it. It is a superbly crafted image with dream-like conditions. I hope I live long enough to see something like this myself.

Fabulous!!