Cool Volcano Pictures

For my birthday this year (and Christmas and my anniversary and my husband's christmas and birthday and anniversary) Shaun got me this really amazing zoom lens for my camera. It is really big and heavy. I had been commenting that my camera didn't zoom in enough to take pictures of some of the things I wanted to capture. He said that if I liked taking pictures of Alaska, this baby would be just the thing to bring Alaska right to me. So on a beautiful couple of clear days I took these pictures.

The first is now my screen saver. The detail is really great when it is the size of the computer screen. The second picture is of the same volcano that is on the right of the first picture...only using my zoom. It is the first time that I got such an up close shot of it, and it blows me away that I am some 150 miles away taking this photo. The snow on it is so beautiful. When this picture is the size of my computer screen, I can also count airplanes at the Anchorage Airport which is just beyond the dark treeline in the middle on the left hand side of the picture. I love my new zoom lens.