Photographs Mt. Ranier, from Seattle

[Barbarian]

 

[jasoncran]

man I miss that volcano and its beauty. I spend days with that a scenery at ft.lewis, wa

 

[Rollo Tamasi]

Great picture.
Been there 3 times, family in
Tacoma.
Climbed it by car up to the 9000 ft. mark.
Scary!!!

 

[Sparkey]

Looks like 1st Ave bridge in the foreground maybe? Maybe not, it is single level there. Guessing you took this from the South of Seattle side with telephoto? Great shot, Barb. Exceptional. Hmmmm... seems that I recall a place called "Rat City" by the truckers. It is also called "White Center" by those who like the hoity and the toity but would never live there themselves.

 

[farouk]

WOW...

Kind of, Calgary near the Sea...

 

[stovebolts]

@Barbarian
Great shot! I used to love that mountain and Mt. Shasta in Northern Ca. Do you have any pictures of Shasta?

 

[Claudya]

Looks like someone photoshopped a mountain into a city skyline shot.
Seriously it looks unreal.:

 

[Sparkey]

My new siggy (I'm so proud, pardon) is that same mountain.

I took a photograph of Mt. Rainier from Bonnie Lake (near Puyallup, WA - if that helps). It's the same photo that I have as my avatar (upper left of this post). Questdriven drew the bird and hand and added highlights (sunbeams) I added some effects ("canvas" effect and added Sparrowhawke tag with blending) and there you have it.

Looking at the original photograph at the bottom right edge, you can see a duck and her ducklings. It was taken from a friend's back deck more than 20 years ago.

They speak of majestic mountains; this is one of them. I've not traveled much except in the states but there are very few areas that may compare. The Rockies are bigger and the mountains in Alaska are too but as far as stunning beauty? This one --more than others-- (at least for me).

 

[Sparkey]

Mt. Rainier (part of the Cascades, called the Sierra Nevada range in California) is located SE direction from Seattle. If one were to turn toward the west? Then we have the Olympic mountain range and all that splendor. The area is cradled between two rain forests and two preserved National Forests, both part of the Park system.

You could spend years riding around on a motorcycle (I have) and never be able to see it all.

 

[OhFarouk]

Umm...the image of the mountain seems to have disappeared; but anyway I guess this is why ole' Texe Johnston did the barrel roll in the Dash-80, when trying to avoid the mountains near Everett...

(jasoncran would know what I mean...)

 

[jasoncran]

Looks like someone photoshopped a mountain into a city skyline shot.
Seriously it looks unreal.:

no, it does that. sparrow knows. I have seen that mountain every day like that for years. its actually a dormant volcano.

 

[jasoncran]

Umm...the image of the mountain seems to have disappeared; but anyway I guess this is why ole' Texe Johnston did the barrel roll in the Dash-80, when trying to avoid the mountains near Everett...

(jasoncran would know what I mean...)

the super sabre you mean. and that was also where he claimed to have seen aliens too. if that is who im thinking of

 

[OhFarouk]

the super sabre you mean. and that was also where he claimed to have seen aliens too. if that is who im thinking of

I was also thinking of Tex's barrel roll in Boeing's Dash-80 prototype, for which Bill Allen gave him a hard time.

Blessings.

 

[OhFarouk]

Mt. Rainier (part of the Cascades, called the Sierra Nevada range in California) is located SE direction from Seattle. If one were to turn toward the west? Then we have the Olympic mountain range and all that splendor. The area is cradled between two rain forests and two preserved National Forests, both part of the Park system.

You could spend years riding around on a motorcycle (I have) and never be able to see it all.

I kind of get an echo of the ghost of writer Raymond Carver, for whom the inexhaustible Northwest was a leitmotif in many of his short stories.

Blessings.

 

[jasoncran]

I was also thinking of Tex's barrel roll in Boeing's Dash-80 prototype, for which Bill Allen gave him a hard time.

Blessings.

ok I was wrong totally different person. boeing isn't in everette but just south of seattle. he had to fly to rainer from the south depending on his fly path after take off.

 

[OhFarouk]

ok I was wrong totally different person. boeing isn't in everette but just south of seattle. he had to fly to rainer from the south depending on his fly path after take off.

Oh okay; I think they called it Boeing Field.

Blessings.

 

[jasoncran]

yes its just off interstate 5. as you had north its to the left if I recall. its in renton I think. everette is on the other side of seattle and that has a navy base(did).

 

[OhFarouk]

yes its just off interstate 5. as you had north its to the left if I recall. its in renton I think. everette is on the other side of seattle and that has a navy base(did).

Renton sounds familiar, too. Boeing's history, and the mountainous backdrop to its activities, is really absorbing.

Blessings.

 

[jasoncran]

I know,. I do miss the state but not the loony liberals that live there. I was stationed at ft.lewis for a year and a half.

 

[OhFarouk]

I know,. I do miss the state but not the loony liberals that live there. I was stationed at ft.lewis for a year and a half.

I guess there are liney looberals everywhere you go; but yes it seems like a really scenic s