08/03/12 Featured Arkansas Photography–Sunset from Flatside Pinnacle

Sunset from Flatside Pinnacle looking to the west and Forked Mountain

Taken with a Canon 1ds   MKII, iso 100, HDR series 5 frames, Canon 24-70 lens @ F11.  Flatside Pinnacle is one of those places that once you make a trip there, you will find yourself going back many times.  You can catch a great sunset looking out over the Ouachita mountains, or if you are there early in the morning, the fog will be down in the hills.  Flatside is an easy 40 minute drive from Little Rock, west on Hwy 10 towards Lake Sylvia.  I took this shot with a Canon 1ds, MKII, in a 5 frame HDR series.  The sun had already set and the exposure times were from around 5″ to 20″.  The effect I was after was the light playing off the haze in the distance.  The colors of the sky that day were amazing.  The hike to Flatside will take you near the 150 mile Quachita trail which runs east/west across most of the Arkansas Ouachita mountains and into Oklahoma.