# @noahwetzel on Instagram

- **Type:** Image
- **Original URL:** https://www.instagram.com/p/DLK5yaguCQe
- **Gondola URL:** https://gondola.cc/posts/59723336-noahwetzel-instagram
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- **Posted:** 2025-06-21T16:57:24.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** Noah Wetzel (@noahwetzel) — https://gondola.cc/noahwetzel

## Caption

Late afternoon light strikes one of Colorado’s most iconic peaks, Lone Eagle Peak in early September last fall. This was captured via a 200-second exposure using a 10-Stop ND Filter (ISO 100 f/13), allowing me to take a long exposure in the daytime and get some cloud movement. 

I’d been wanting to visit this location for years, and in mid-September last year I got the chance to sneak away. After the Total Solar Eclipse on April 8th 2024, I didn’t have time to shoot one single image the entire summer of 2024 (besides a few commercial shoots for bigagnes_ and bikeraft ), even though I was working 70-90+ hour weeks managing other aspects of my business. 

This trip was my first escape to get outside and adventure. It felt so damn good to be creating again, and exploring a new location. This was intended as a scouting trip to figure out the exact framing composition for an image I’ve had in mind for a couple years now, a moonlit or starry night scene with Lone Eagle Peak towering above a freshly snow-covered Mirror Lake (perhaps with fog on the water) before freezing over in the autumn. Keep your eyes out this fall… unless I’m in Texas showing the Eclipse film…

Which photograph do you prefer, first slider or second slider?

#backpacking #colorado #coloradobackpacking #coloradosummer #coloradoart #coloradoartist #loneeaglepeak #wilderness #coloradowilderness #coloradointeriordesign #landscapephotos #landscapephotography #highalpine #exposurephotography

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## Tags

coloradowilderness, coloradosummer, wilderness, coloradointeriordesign, coloradobackpacking, landscapephotos, coloradoartist, highalpine, backpacking, landscapephotography, coloradoart, loneeaglepeak, exposurephotography, colorado

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