dankearl
09-15-2013, 09:20 PM
This is the Belknap volcanic crater in the Sisters Wilderness, Central Oregon Cascade Range.
The peak is Mt. Washington, a shield volcano from the Pleistocene era.
It is surrounded by a 100,000 acre forest fire that devastated the Santium forest in 2003.
The volcanic field in the middle (the Belknap crater) is a recent very large (20 sq. mile?) volcanic flow from about 3000 years ago.
I am standing on an "island" in the lava flow.
1/80, 16mm, iso200, f11, D800, Polarizer filter, Handheld.
DSC_7840bp.jpg (http://www.birdphotographers.net/forums/attachment.php?attachmentid=132587&stc=1&d=1379297973)
The peak is Mt. Washington, a shield volcano from the Pleistocene era.
It is surrounded by a 100,000 acre forest fire that devastated the Santium forest in 2003.
The volcanic field in the middle (the Belknap crater) is a recent very large (20 sq. mile?) volcanic flow from about 3000 years ago.
I am standing on an "island" in the lava flow.
1/80, 16mm, iso200, f11, D800, Polarizer filter, Handheld.
DSC_7840bp.jpg (http://www.birdphotographers.net/forums/attachment.php?attachmentid=132587&stc=1&d=1379297973)