[Reposting my bounced message.] On Fri, Feb 24, 2023 at 2:17 PM Daniel J. Matyola <danmaty...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Wonderful image, Rick! Thanks for posting it. > > We have made about 30 trips to Maui, and have driven up to the summit of > Haleakala more than a dozen times (but not this year). That place always > amazes me; no wonder it has inspired so many native Hawai'ian legends. > "The" trip that everyone talks about is the sunrise trip, traveling up in > the dark and watching the sun rise over the clouds thousands of > feet below. It is an inspiring experience, which we have done 6 or 7 > times. As you found, however, the colors in the crater are more > spectacular in late morning or early afternoon. Because of that, and > because my wife doesn't appreciate the freezing temperatures and howling > winds at sunrise, we have done the trip in mid morning more often than at > sunrise. > > Some of my early postings of the crater in mid morning were met with > comments that the colors must be over-enhanced, because such colors just > don't occur in nature. As you so clearly demonstrate, however, the colors > atop Haleakala are dazzlingly brilliant in the right light. > > I took and posted this shot because it was unusual, with the red sunset > glow bathing the mountain and the clear sky permitting a view of the summit > and "Science City," just as a cpuple of years ago I posted an image of the > mountain with snow visible on the summit from the beach. > > Once again, I love your image of a place that means so much to me and > helps draw me back to Maui year after year. > > Dan Matyola > *https://tinyurl.com/DJM-Pentax-Gallery > <https://tinyurl.com/DJM-Pentax-Gallery>* > > On Fri, Feb 24, 2023 at 11:46 AM Rick Womer <rickpic...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> That’s a nice shot! I was on Maui for a 5-day conference several years >> ago, but was not in a place where I could include Haleakala in a sunset pic. >> >> I did visit the summit, though—it almost seemed an alien planet. This is >> a shot into the summit crater. (From what I read, it is not considered a >> volcanic caldera because non-volcanic events (like floods) have modified it >> extensively). >> >> For scale, about 1/3 in from the right edge of the pic and 1/10 up from >> the bottom is a bluish-white dot. That is a pair of hikers. >> >> https://rickwomer.smugmug.com/Maui-Volcano/i-R7RnXss/A >> >> Rick >> > -- %(real_name)s Pentax-Discuss Mail List To unsubscribe send an email to pdml-le...@pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
