Island in a Sea of Snow
by Mike Lee
Title
Island in a Sea of Snow
Artist
Mike Lee
Medium
Photograph - Digital Photography
Description
This image captures Pegleg Mountain in Lassen County, California, USA at sunset. The image was captured from Hog Flat Reservoir on a January evening after a recent snow. I was struck by the explosion of vibrant colors in the clouds and the way the colored light actually reflected down to the field of flat snow.
Pegleg Mountain has a summit elevation of 7106 feet and has a fire lookout atop it (a silhouette of the fire lookout can be seen in this image if one looks closely at the right side of the peak). The mountain is named after David “peg leg” Smith, a 19th century mountain man who spent a great deal of time and buried his deceased wife in the area (source: Tim Purdy, Lassen County Historian (tpurdy.org)).
Honored with group/gallery features:
Canon Full Frame Cameras 1/3/21
Sunrises/Sunsets 1/3/21
USA Photographers Only 1/4/21
Images that Excite You 1/4/21
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January 3rd, 2021
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