Last summer my friend asked me to come along on a nighttime imaging expedition. The plan was to capture images of Mount Rainier from the Crystal Mountain Resort.
Mr Rainier and early evening light
Gondola and Mount Rainier
The expedition aspect turned out to be pretty mild, we rode the gondola up to the resort and hung around all night, eating, drinking and once in a while taking pictures of the wonderful views!
Preparing for photo action!
Mount Rainier just after sunset
Here are images of the night’s activities!
Evening light at Crystal Resort
View from the Crystal Resort Restaurant
Capturing snap shots in the evening light
Milky Way
Gondola Station
Directions to Summit House
Mount Rainier
Mount Rainier from Crystal Mountain
Milky Way above Mount Rainier
North Western Images - photos by Andy Porter 
Great Photos! Another spot added to my to-visit list 🙂
Yes! So many places to visit!
These are so incredibly beautiful!!
Thanks, Hagen!
I love the last ones. 🙂
Me too!
The photos are absolutly stunning and beautiful! I love the first one but they are all so nice! I hate to bother you but how do you manage the photos to be so clear? And – if it is not a secret – what was the specs and which camera and glass do you use to have so nice photos (of course I am not forgetting the man behind equipment too). Congrats, so nice!
All questions are welcome, no problema. I use a Canon 6D camera and I have 2 lenses, a Canon 24-105 mm lens and a Rokinon 14mm lens.
I shoot in the RAW format, use a polarizer in the daytime, and a tripod in the low light and nighttime. The canon lens I shoot on auto focus, the rokinon lens is manual focus only.
I have the camera on manual mode, and set exposure manually, always bracketing shots. Usually I am at f/11 to f/16, sometimes different.
I do not have or use a flash.
Editing is done in photoshop cs6.
I hope all this helps!!! Feel free to ask anything, best,
Andy
Thank you Andy, so nice of you to explain and share the info! Many thanks!
These are the most wonderful images !
Thank you very much Jenny! 🙂
nice View
Just stunning views…
Oh my goodness, just lovely! I especially love the last one!!!!
This place is freak’in awesome. it seems like it isn’t even on earth. My favorite photos are the pictures the sky!!! Where is this place?
Its near Mount Rainier National Park, in Washington State. There is a ski area there, Crystal Mountain Resort. Its open even in the summer (not for skiing, just for hiking) and you can ride the gondola up to the spot where we go the images. Washington Stte is full of such places!
Do you have any photos from the East Tennessee area around Bristol or the Tri – Cities? I live in the tri – city area and i used to hike all the time. Now i am in high school and involved in the school a lot and i just miss the outdoors so much.
amazing night shots ! Very inspiring.
Thanks! I love the image of you peaking out!
It was taken in Keukenhof, a beautiful spring Garden in Holland 🙂
Looks like our Tulip Festival, those are tall tulips in your image!
It was in a field near the garden actually.. not really inside the spring garden, really close to it. It is probably part of the tulip festival (I don’t know a lot about it to be honest)
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Your images are so beautiful I enjoyed browsing very much and will be back, thank you
Hello! And thank you!