Springtime sunset from Mt Magazine–03/23/15 Featured Arkansas Landscape Photography

Springtime sunset from the summit of Mt. Magazine

Taken with a Nikon D800e, single exposure with 0.9 ND grad filter on a Nikon 14-24 lens, F7.1 for 1/6 of a sec @ iso 320.  The views from Mt. Magazine are some of the best vistas in Arkansas.  The valley to the south, which is featured here looks towards Blue Mountain and below it, Blue Mountain lake.  It’s easy to see where the timber industry has harvested all the natural hardwoods, below the Mt. Magazine as the deciduous trees run down the mountain to the park boundary.   Springtime is a special time in Arkansas, I like to call the power puff period as all the trees will have different shades of green for about 2 weeks.  After that, all the leaves will take on a similar dark green hue until fall.  

This shot features the most famous tree on Mt Magazine, the bonsai shaped juniper.  I would have loved to make it up to this spot when the huge dead cedar was still alive as it is a huge tree.  It’s interesting still standing there and when you look at the roots, you have to wonder how it managed to live as long as it did as the vast majority of them are above the ground on the rock.  Mt Magazine is the tallest spot in Arkansas at around 2,700 feet high.