06/24/12 Featured Arkansas Photography–Sunset over Pinnacle Mountain State Park

Image taken with a Canon 1ds MKII, Canon 24-70 F2.8 @ F11, ISO 100, 5 shot combination for exposure.  Back in 2009, which seems to long ago to remember, we were having almost nightly thunderstorms in July.  I can only hope that Arkansas gets some this type of weather soon in 2012.  We are about as dry as I can remember for this time of year and soon you will start to see tree going into stress, then dropping leaves.  The area around Pinnacle State Park is photographers paradise in that there are some many great vistas to work from.  One of mine is the view directly to the west from the summit of the quarry ridge at the Pinnacle State Park visitors center.  Here you get an unobstructed view of the summit of Pinnacle mountain and can often catch an evening storm coming in from the west.  This sunset was taken as 5 separate exposures then blended together to get the final image.