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As I showed this photo to a friend of mine he taught me a pilot's
lesson. "See those clouds there? Do you know what kind of clouds
they are? They are "lenticular" clouds and they bend with the
shape of the mountain because there are high winds going across
the top of that mountain. As pilots we are taught to stay away
from those kind of clouds." I captured this image about one year
after I began taking nature photography seriously and pursuing
it with a passion. One year's experience wasn't enough. I can
see now what an amateur I still was. I didn't realize that the
foreground, because it was in the shadows while the mountain was
in the sun, would not turn out the way it looked to my naked
eye. Instead it turned out black. I was using film and did not
have today's luxury of looking at a monitor on the back of my
camera to see how the photo came out. I also shot the picture
according to the frame limitations of the camera rather than
shooting wide and cropping it later. As a result I focused on
the mountain and left out most of the pink cloud hovering above
the mountain. As I look at this image now I would like to see
what the rest of that cloud looks like. That was thirty years
ago, and I am still learning every day. There is so much more I
could do if I really
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