Crater Lake and umpqua scenic byway

Crater Lake National Park is one of the country’s crown jewels. No place else on earth combines a deep pure lake, so blue in color; sheer surrounding cliffs, almost 2,000 feet high; a picturesque island and a violent volcanic past.

I went crazy taking pictures. Zoom lens, wide lense, portrait lens,  fish-eye lens, taken in  raw, taken in HDR , Canon, Polarizer,  ND filter Sony RXIII, iPhone 6S..  600  images in  3-4 hours ! and now do not know which to pick and get  time to process it. Many are unprocessed simple  JPEG shot and so one can see the beauty captured  as captured by a point and shoot camera as well. No camera, photographer can do justice to what one can see with the eyes ! 

Just  visited  the Quilotoa  crater lake in Ecuador three months back which is  equally  beautiful. Another Lucky day to be there with sunny (but cold) day with changing Sun shades,  where the lake gives ever  changing different colors like moving a kaleidoscope.

1) Crater Lake Selected 



2)  Crater Lake  Rest -   ( last pictures: to the  Crater Lake)

3) Rogue Umpqua scenic  Byway 
Again the Journey to the Crater lake was  as beautiful as the destination, 
Two of Oregon’s nationally designated Wild and Scenic Rivers lead the way on this 172-mile/  route, an ever-changing feast of white water, waterfalls and deep gorges gouged in the deeply forested southern Cascade Mountains.  

4) Madhu-Tushar at  the Umpqua  scenic byway

5) Madhu-Tushar at the Crater lake 

6) Pictures taken by Sony camera