Mount Thielson is a starkly beautiful mountain, rising higher than 9,000 feet. It is also known as the Big Cowhorn, because of its distinctive peak, so extended that it attracts lighting strikes. It is an extinct volcano that stopped erupting 250,000 years ago. Located in the Oregon High Cascades, not far from Crater Lake National Park, Mount Thielson dominates the landscape like few other mountains do. Its huge scale and distinctive shape offer a sense of grandeur that borders on the surreal. I made this image through the windshield of our moving car. I processed it so that the road ahead seems to vanish into darkness, giving even greater prominence to the grandeur of the mountain itself.