- Good morning, Bluesky! Happy #Sunday! Sunrise at Tahoma. The sun lighting up a lenticular cloud just as it peeks above the summit of Mt Rainier, Washington on New Year's Day, 2025. 📸Morgan Stephen
- Glorious image! Absolutely stunning! Took me to the OP's bio to check for mention of AI. Finding none, I stared at this perfectly-timed scene for quite a while, and I have questions for Photographer Stephen about how they set all this up. Like, what peak had you scaled so close to the mountain?
- I did some checking on it also, and found a similar photo that let me know this is not out of the realm of reality: 📸whenonearth.net
- I can see that it's possible if, indeed a high peak does stand that close to Rainier, but the setup boggles the mind. They had to know when and where the sun was to rise, had to know the GPS coordinates for the alignment. Did they stay overnight up there waiting? Did they stage the hikers?Feb 1, 2026 21:54
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- This is almost definitely AI - where did you find this? Any googling of Stephen Morgan results in a few photographers, none of which specialize in large landscape photography. It's tough because from Google Earth, Bearhead Mountain would likely be where the shot was taken, but no valley between them
