This is a popular hiking location near Allentown, Pennsylvania where the Appalachian Trail wanders past a vast rock outcropping. Because this is the very edge of the mountain, it is referred to as the Pinnacle. I’ve hiked here dozens of times and it is rare to find it so unpopulated with other hikers. It is also rare to find this kind of light. This is one of the first images I have made with the Lumix LX-5 which is a high end pocket camera. It has a great lens and renders colors in a very pastel way. Because it is a  small camera, I experimented here with shooting several shots of the environment and then hand “stitched” them together on the computer. It is a common “rule” of photography that the middle of the day is a bad time to photograph. The sun is high in the sky and can be very harsh. But on days with partly cloudy skies the light can be beautiful. I was particularly attracted to the patches of sunlight in the fields below and the showers in the far distance.

Rich Lewis | www.impressionisticlens.com