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This is a series of photographs taken at high ISO from the side of a Hughes 500 helicopter flying over the crater of Wai'ale'ale in the interior of Kauai. It was very challenging to provide adequate perspective in these images, let alone obtain a serviceable photograph at all. Wai'ale'ale's summit lies just below the trade wind inversion layer of 6,000 feet (1,829 m), above which trade-wind-generated clouds cannot rise. It's pretty much always cloudy and always raining. The fact that the sky is clear for a moment is interesting in and of itself I guess. The steep cliffs are at a near vertical orientation and endlessly drop down to the base of the crater where the innumerable waterfalls join.
5D MKIII, 24-70 2.8L, 24mm, f/11.0, 1/500 s, iso 1600, -2/3 EV
http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7358/11442191466_a0dd8c1eb4_b.jpg
5D MKIII, 24-70 2.8L, 24mm, f8.0, 1/320 s, iso 1600, -2/3 EV
http://farm6.staticflickr.com/5522/11442190776_97ef68bf79_o.jpg
5D MKIII, 24-70 2.8L, 24mm, f/11.0, 1/500 s, iso 1600, -2/3 EV
http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7359/11442105075_47a6d81635_o.jpg
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