Bald Knob at Mountain Lake

Bald Knob, Oct. 25, 2005
When I finally made it to the top, I was pretty excited. I had been looking forward to seeing this location for quite some time, and finally I was there. If you look closely at the shrub in front of the rocks, you can see that it was pretty windy on the top of Bald Knob. Ideally, I would wait for the wind to stop before snapping the shutter. But this time around, I kind of wanted to let the motion of the branches show up in my frame. So I set the f-stop to 18 and used a shutter speed of 1/20 sec.
For the first time today, I put my 200 mm lens into the camera bag and took out my 24-85 zoom. I set the lens to 52 mm and stepped back about 30 feet from the rocks to get this shot.
I like the way this photograph seems to almost resemble "black and white." There just wasn't much color on Bald Knob today, thanks to the gray sky and the snow.