A cloudless October pre-sunrise scene with Mount Hood, from the Jonsrud Viewpoint in Sandy, OR. Horizontal color photograph. Layers of tree covered hills and mountains rise from the Sandy valley in the foreground. At the horizon line, about 1/3 the way up the frame, a freshly snow-covered Mount Hood rears above the surrounding mountains. Behind its conical form, the sky starts orange at the horizon, then transitions to yellow and then to white and finally blue. You can see a faint shadow in the sky to the left of the mountain peak: it's cast by the mountain itself, as the sun is still below the horizon. In the upper right corner, a line of geese are flying towards Mount Hood.

Just Before Sunrise, Mount Hood

A cloudless October pre-sunrise scene with Mount Hood, from the Jonsrud Viewpoint in Sandy, OR.

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Sun Rays Cutting Through Morning Fog, Sandy River, OR Vertical black-and-shite photograph: Perspective is looking down into the valley from a high point. Tall evergreens cut the sunlight into sharp rays that filter through the morning fog along the Sandy River. The tree are in the upper right of the composition, and the beams come diagonally down into the frame, extending to the bottom. Following the sun rays take your eyes down into brightly lit billowy clouds low over the forest and river. Along the bottom part of the image, the half lit Sandy River comes in the from the center of the frame, moving up and then curving to the viewer's left to exit the frame in shadow about 1/3 of the way up. The rest of the frame is forest, softened by the morning mist, even where the sun isn't highlighting it. Taken from Jonsrud Point in Sandy Oregon, which allows you to look across the Sandy River Valley to Mount Hood. The weather forecast hinted at the possibility of a stunning sunrise, but the promised bits of cloud did not appear anywhere near the right part of the sky. Fortunately, fog and mist along the river provided some interesting scenes.

Sun Rays Cutting Through Morning Fog, Sandy River, OR

Taken from Jonsrud Point in Sandy Oregon, which allows you to look across the Sandy River Valley to Mount Hood.

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