Hanging Lake had long been on my list of "must photograph" locations. I had tried several times to schedule a trip to this location near Glenwood Springs, CO. This year we intentionally booked a campground nearby so that I could add this location to my portfolio. The 1.25 mile and 1000 ft elevation gain hike with my 35lb camera bag on my back was about all these 72 year old legs could handle. But I did make it and boy was the effort ever worth it. One of the most popular iconic hikes in Colorado, Hanging Lake narrowly escaped the Grizzly Creek wide fire in August of 2020.

This is a focus bracketed/stacked image shot with Canon R5, Canon 300mm lens at f/13, 1/320th sec. exposure, ISO 400. It is made up of 2928 images with the majority of the the images being Focus Bracketed images processed to yield 308 individual Focus Stacked images, 11 rows x 27 columns 30% overlap in portrait orientation.

The original image is:

5.9 Giga-pixels
58,409 x 101,066 pixels
194" x 336" 300 PPI (16 ft. X 28 ft.) un- cropped image size