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Image of the Week 07-04-2026
Airplane shots of Mounts St. Helens and Rainier
Our return flights home from Iceland two weeks ago started with one from Reykjavik to Portland, Oregon. After a long 8-1/2 hours I was delighted to look out my window to a clear sunny day and and our plane flying past two of the local mountains. My window was shockingly clean and unscratched, so I grabbed my cellphone, forgot to turn to airplane mode, activated the camera, held my hand steady and shot-shot-shot-shot. These are the results.
I chose two images of each mountain from several (appx 5-7 of each). I have little idea of the interocular distance between the left eye and right eye shots, perhaps a mile or two, likely more. I found later that the horizons on my images weren't level, so I brought them into Photoshop and rotated them to fix that. From there I used StereoPhoto Maker to auto-align the images, then cleaned them up a little more in Photoshop. All in all very satisfying. I'm confident that the top image is of Mount St. Helens, and a little less confident the bottom is Mount Rainier, as Google Lens in one case identified it as Mount Adams.
As a young man I once climbed and a several times camped on Mount Rainier. I saw what I believe was the third of six eruptions of Mount St. Helens in 1980, a rising mushroom cloud visible 190 miles away on a rare clear Seattle day in May. A few weeks later I recall camping on Mount Rainier, the ground and trees thick with Mount St. Helens ash.
Happy 4th of July and 250th anniversary of the USA. I wish I was happy about how the USA is currently looking and representing itself to the world. We need to keep in mind that relative to Europe and Asia, we are a very young country, feeling its way along, quite primitive in many ways. I'm hoping that for out next 250 years we strive to live up to the ideals put forward in the founding of the USA.
Hoping,
Barry Rothstein
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