This was a fun one to put together. It shows the Madison River a few miles inside the west park entrance at sunrise.


It was already smokey from a lightning-strike fire plus it was early enough in the morning that there was still alot of mist rising from the river. I decided to exagerate that by using the Finney Pinhole Attachement for my camera.


To get the sun exposed right I used the image-stacking ability of Photoshop CS2 which allows multiple exposures to be combined into a 32-bpp image. Since the colors were already weak I converted the image to a B&W sepia-tone.


Other than the image stacking there was very little manipulation. The sun's rays are an apparent artifact of the pinhole. I did nothing to emphasize them.


--Tom Mears (click for more photos)