Mount Adams And Milky Way
by Douglas Taylor
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Title
Mount Adams And Milky Way
Artist
Douglas Taylor
Medium
Photograph - Fine Art Digital Photography
Description
I had already stretched out in my sleeping bag and drifted off to sleep after a magnificent evening at Lake Takhlakh when I awoke to this magnificent scene of the Milky Way shining brightly over Mount Adams on a clear summer night.
Mount Adams, the third tallest peak in the range at 12,281 feet, is the forgotten giant of the Cascades. This broad stratovolcano lies 35 miles east of Mount St. Helens and within a rugged, roadless forest wilderness of jagged ridges, deep glacier cut valleys and wide, barren lava flows. For this reason, Mount Adams is isolated and relatively unknown. The fact that it hasn’t erupted within the last millennia has also helped keep it out of the public eye. This is not to say it is extinct for 1,000 years is just a blink in the scale of geologic time. Fumaroles are active at the summit, just to show the world that it is merely snoozing.
Lake Takhlakh is a small lake surround by the sprawling Gifford Pinchot National Forest 7 miles northwest of Mount Adams, and an unknown number of rough road miles south of Mount Rainier. It was another of those places chosen by examining topographic maps.
The lake sits at about 4,400 feet and almost 8,000 feet below the ice covered summit of Mount Adams. The north face of Adams is dominated by Adams Glacier, the second largest in the lower 48 states. It is a massive ice river that flows from the summit ice fields and cascades over a series of spectacular icefalls down a steep channel, eventually spreading into a large sheet extending down to the 7,000 foot level.
CONTEST WINNER: 2nd Place, "Beach Skies" contest, October, 2022.
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February 1st, 2020
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Comments (48)
Allan Van Gasbeck
Congratulations! Your outstanding artwork has been chosen as a FEATURE in the “The Skyscapes” group on Fine Art America — You are invited to post your featured image to the featured image discussion thread as a permanent place to continue to get exposure even after the image is no longer on the Home Page.
Keri LaGrave
What an amazing shot! Wonderfully done!
Douglas Taylor replied:
Thank you so much for your enthusiastic compliment, Keri! Your words are most appreciated by this man.
Joseph Schofield
Congratulations! I have chosen to feature this fine image on the homepage of Pacific Northwest Plus. Please archive it on the 2023 features and thank you thread.
Steve Rich
Your work deserves to be showcased on the homepage of "The Meandering Photographer!" Please consider adding this work to the "Feature History, The Meandering Photographer (Oct-Nov 2023)" active discussion thread. (l/f on 11-3-2023)
Douglas Taylor replied:
Thank you, Steve! I am honored by your recognition for my photography with the feature in this superb photographic art group.
Alex Lapidus
Congratulations, your image has been featured in the Experimental Photography group -- thanks for sharing it with us! Please feel free to add it to the 2022 Feature Archive in the Discussion section (using the "embed" link on your image page).
Nancy Carol Photography
Well done! Excellent and thank you for sharing with us your wonderful work of art that has been proudly presented on the Home Page of the group, 'ART FOR PASSION - PASSION FOR ART'. If you wish, you may archive it permanently or promote it further in the Discussions Tabs titled, "Oct Nov Dec 2022 Features."
Douglas Taylor replied:
Thank you, Carol! I am honored to be featured in this wonderful art group and among the many superb artists who participate here.
Larry Kniskern
Congratulations, Douglas – your cloudless sky scene has been featured by the Go Take a Hike Photography Group! Feel free to add it to the 2021 Featured Images thread in the group discussion board for archive.
Douglas Taylor replied:
Thank you, Larry! I am honored to be featured in this wonderful art group and selected among the superb artists who participate here.
Tony Lee
Lucky you to wake to this splendid heavenly scene!! The reflection alone is divine!!!! Thanks for sharing!!
Nancy Booth
I've complimented you on this before, but want you let you know that I have this as my desktop background pic :)
Luther Fine Art
Congratulations! Your fantastic art has been featured on the Home Page of the ABC GROUP from the T IS FOR TWINKLE themed week, APRIL 13- April 20 2020. You are invited to add this wonderful art to the Features Archive Discussion in the ABC GROUP
Douglas Taylor
Chosen by Karen Silvestri to be featured in the Nature Landmarks Landscape and Wildlife art group, 3/30/20. Thank you, Karen! I consider it to be an honor.
Jan Mulherin
Congratulations!! This stunning image has been selected to be featured for the week in the “Art for Ever with You” Group Home Page. You are welcome to add a preview of this featured image to the group’s discussion post titled “2020 March: Stunning Group Featured Images and Thank-you’s” for a permanent display within the group, to share this achievement with others. Also feel free to post your feature on our group Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/groups/296998814248643/ Thank you for your participation in the group! ~Jan (March 11, 2020)
Debra Lynch
Douglas, Congratulations this wonderful image has been chosen to be featured on the Home Page of TATONG GROUP. Thank you for your lovely submissions and participation in the group. Debra L/F/T
Douglas Taylor replied:
Debra! Thank you for including me in this fabulous art group. I am humbled to be among the wonderfully talented artists in TATONG.
Douglas Taylor
Chosen by Stefano Senise as a feature in the 10 Plus art group, 2/25/20. Thank you, Stefano!
Douglas Taylor
Ludwig Keck has honored me by choosing to feature "Mount Adams And Milky Way" in the All About Light art group, 2/25/20. Thank you, Ludwig!
Jan Mulherin
Congratulations!! This beautiful image has been selected to be featured for the week in the “Snow-Ice-Frost Including Mountain Tops” Group Home Page. You are welcome to add a preview of this featured image to the group’s discussion post titled “2020 January & February: Stunning Featured Images and Thank you’s” for a permanent display within the group, to share this achievement with others. You may also post your featured image to our group Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/groups/2059486324342268/?ref=bookmarks (February 24 , 2020)
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