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Jack Brauer 🏔️📷 @jackbrauer.mountainphotography.com · 23/09/2026

It was indeed! So nice to be able to enjoy the scenery without swatting mosquitoes!

Jack Brauer 🏔️📷 @jackbrauer.mountainphotography.com · 20/09/2026

Last week I did a 7-day, ~60 mile solo backpack trek through the Eastern #Sierra in #California, through parts of Sequoia and Kings Canyon National Parks. I couldn't resist all the reflection shots along the way! See my trip report and more pics here: www.mountainphotography.com/gallery/east...

Dawn light over The Miter in the Sierra Nevada, California.

The morning sun pokes over a jagged ridgeline in Miter Basin in the Sierra Nevada, California.

A perfect reflection of rugged peaks on a calm morning in the Sierra Nevada, California.

The Milky Way over Center Peak in the Sierra Nevada, California.

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Jack Brauer 🏔️📷 @jackbrauer.mountainphotography.com · 27/08/2026

I think so. It's more hands-on – you still have to hit the shutter when you see a strike. But that's kinda fun. And the hit rate is perfection; in fact at 15-30 frames a second I was getting 5-6 frames per bolt, seeing the progression of the bolt moving through the sky!

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Jack Brauer 🏔️📷 @jackbrauer.mountainphotography.com · 27/08/2026

A massive #lightning bolt snakes across the sky above the Sneffels Range, eventually striking the summit of Dallas Peak. #SanJuanMountains #Colorado. This was my first time using the "pre-capture" feature on the very first day using my new Sony A7R6. Works like a charm! 😁

A massive lighting bolt snakes across the sky above the Sneffels Range, eventually striking the summit of Dallas Peak. San Juan Mountains, Colorado.

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Jack Brauer 🏔️📷 @jackbrauer.mountainphotography.com · 24/08/2026

The #PacificNorthwest is a majestic part of the world, with its dark forests, glacier-clad volcanoes, and emerald rivers. This summer I spent 2 months road tripping through the #Cascades of California, #Oregon, and #Washington! See all the photos here: www.mountainphotography.com/gallery/2-mo...

Evening light on Mount Baker (10,784 ft) in the Washington Cascades.

North Fork Sauk Falls in the central Washington Cascades

A panoramic view of the setting sun shining on Mount Hood (11,250 ft) as seen from a high spur. Oregon.

Sunbeams shine over Copper Lake, as seen from the summit of Vesper Peak in the Washington Cascades.

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Jack Brauer 🏔️📷 @jackbrauer.mountainphotography.com · 10/04/2026

The warm glow of pre-sunrise illuminates jagged sandstone needles, reflected in a slickrock pothole. #Canyonlands National Park, #Utah.

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Jack Brauer 🏔️📷 @jackbrauer.mountainphotography.com · 08/04/2026

Black and white peaks from the #Haute-Alps in #France this last January. One of my favorite modes of photography is riding around on my snowboard with a telephoto lens! Double the fun. More photos from our trip here: www.mountainphotography.com/gallery/larc... #MountainPhotography #BlackAndWhite

Rocher Bouchard (2,900 m) as seen from the snow-smothered slopes of Serre Chevalier after a big snowstorm, France.

Pic de Rochebrune (3,320 m / 10,890 ft) in the Haute-Alps, France.

Mount Chaberton in France (3,131 m / 10,272 ft) rises above the clouds.

Barre des Écrins (4,102 m / 13,458 ft) is the highest peak of the Massif des Écrins and the most southerly alpine peak in Europe that is higher than 4,000 meters.

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Jack Brauer 🏔️📷 @jackbrauer.mountainphotography.com · 27/02/2026

I agree! The Swiss Alps are quite photogenic!

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Jack Brauer 🏔️📷 @jackbrauer.mountainphotography.com · 27/02/2026

Some color photos from the Swiss Alps last month. I was putting my telephoto lens to good use there! See lots more photos on my blog post: www.mountainphotography.com/gallery/swis... #Switzerland #Alps #MountainPhotography

Sunrise light illuminates the mountains as a January snowstorm lifts in Switzerland.

Pink sunset light illuminates the peak of Blinnenhorn (3,374 m), as seen from Fiescheralp, Switzerland.

Pastel sunset sky colors and wispy clouds around the sharp tooth of Petit Muveran (2,810 m) in Switzerland.

Abstract patterns of ice and snow of the Aletsch Glacier, Switzerland.

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Jack Brauer 🏔️📷 @jackbrauer.mountainphotography.com · 25/02/2026

Some black and white photos from the Swiss Alps last month after a January snowstorm dumped nearly a meter of fresh powder over the mountains. See lots more photos from my wintery week in #Switzerland here: www.mountainphotography.com/gallery/swis... #Alps #MountainPhotography

Late afternoon light on Bortelhorn (3,193 m), in the Swiss Alps.

Bietschhorn (3,934 m) as seen from afar, surrounded by rugged peaks and wispy clouds. Switzerland.

The Weisshorn (4,505 m) is one of the most prominent peaks in this region of the Swiss Alps, standing tall above the Rhône valley.

Morning light after a snowstorm in Valais, Switzerland.

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Jack Brauer 🏔️📷 @jackbrauer.mountainphotography.com · 03/12/2025

You could come here and be stressed out! 😜

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Jack Brauer 🏔️📷 @jackbrauer.mountainphotography.com · 02/12/2025

Thanks David! I'm always thrilled with those brief moments when the storms lift and the clouds linger along the peaks!

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Jack Brauer 🏔️📷 @jackbrauer.mountainphotography.com · 01/12/2025

Clouds clear off of Mount #Sneffels on a glorious bluebird morning today after a snowstorm at the start of December. #SanJuanMountains, #Colorado Winter is finally here!!! ❄️☃️

Snowstorm clouds clear off of Mount Sneffels at the start of December.

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Jack Brauer 🏔️📷 @jackbrauer.mountainphotography.com · 30/11/2025

Morning light on the convoluted sandstone terrain of the #canyonlands of southern #Utah on a chilly November morning. More photos here: www.mountainphotography.com/gallery/betw...

Morning light on the convoluted sandstone terrain in the canyonlands of southern Utah.

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Jack Brauer 🏔️📷 @jackbrauer.mountainphotography.com · 27/09/2025

Thank you! These photos aren't from this year; as I write this on Sept 27, the colors are more or less just getting started here in SW Colorado. Further along further north.

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Jack Brauer 🏔️📷 @jackbrauer.mountainphotography.com · 27/09/2025

Thanks for the share! Aspens definitely aren't an invasive species in CO, though! Native as can be.

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Jack Brauer 🏔️📷 @jackbrauer.mountainphotography.com · 26/09/2025

Thank you for your kind words, Evelyn! I'm glad you enjoy my work.

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Jack Brauer 🏔️📷 @jackbrauer.mountainphotography.com · 26/09/2025

Gold + mountains + snow is pretty nice. Though I'm still longing to experience an autumn in the northeast someday.

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Jack Brauer 🏔️📷 @jackbrauer.mountainphotography.com · 26/09/2025

You're welcome, and thanks for your kind comment!

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Jack Brauer 🏔️📷 @jackbrauer.mountainphotography.com · 26/09/2025

Fog is pretty rare here in Colorado; needless to say aspens + fog = a giddy photographer.

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Jack Brauer 🏔️📷 @jackbrauer.mountainphotography.com · 26/09/2025

I often think that backlit aspens look like stained glass. Or walking through a Klimt painting.

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Jack Brauer 🏔️📷 @jackbrauer.mountainphotography.com · 26/09/2025

Yes, that certainly happens, especially for us photographers... You can really get swept away in the beauty!

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Jack Brauer 🏔️📷 @jackbrauer.mountainphotography.com · 26/09/2025

I often wonder how old a grove might be, sprouting new boles and slowing moving across a mountainside over the centuries...

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Jack Brauer 🏔️📷 @jackbrauer.mountainphotography.com · 26/09/2025

That's right, and the smell of autumn, and the bugling elk...

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Jack Brauer 🏔️📷 @jackbrauer.mountainphotography.com · 26/09/2025

Thank you! There's nothing quite like the sound of the breeze going through the aspen forest.

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Jack Brauer 🏔️📷 @jackbrauer.mountainphotography.com · 26/09/2025

Yes, that's correct! Each bole is sprout of the same tree; there can be many acres of aspens which are actually the same tree. I'm pretty sure that by mass these are the largest organisms on the planet.

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Jack Brauer 🏔️📷 @jackbrauer.mountainphotography.com · 26/09/2025

Walking through a grove of golden quaking #aspens is one of nature's most beautiful experiences, like entering a natural cathedral with sacred light. See my gallery of #Colorado #fallcolors photos here: www.mountainphotography.com/gallery/autu...

Aspen forest in the fog - September, Colorado.

Rich sunset light filters through the aspens near Marble, Colorado.

Golden aspen leaves flutter to the ground on a breezy day at the tail end of autumn in the San Juan Mountains of Colorado

Golden light in golden aspens deep in the West Elk Wilderness, Colorado.

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Jack Brauer 🏔️📷 @jackbrauer.mountainphotography.com · 18/09/2025

Congrats and wonderful photo, @kennymuir.bsky.social, with its stark, high-contrast b&w foreground tree against the softer, mystical background. That splash of light ties it all together!

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Jack Brauer 🏔️📷 @jackbrauer.mountainphotography.com · 18/09/2025

Thank you. At least we had a beautiful 3 days before getting inundated by the smoke.

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Jack Brauer 🏔️📷 @jackbrauer.mountainphotography.com · 17/09/2025

In early September we had to retreat unexpectedly from a backpack trip in the #WindRiverRange of #Wyoming due to #wildfire smoke from the nearby #DollarLakeFire. Check out more photos and stories from this unique and surreal trek here: www.mountainphotography.com/gallery/smok...

Sunset light on Fremont Peak reflected in Island Lake in the Wind River Range, Wyoming.

A smoky sunset reflection in Titcomb Basin in the Wind River Range, Wyoming.

Pyrocumulus clouds from the Dollar Lake Wildfire waft in the sky above Elklund Lake, Wind River Range, Wyoming, September 2025.

The moon shines through pine trees and a wildfire smoke filled sky.

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Jack Brauer 🏔️📷 @jackbrauer.mountainphotography.com · 07/08/2025

Here's another batch of photos from a two-week trek through the #Écrins National Park in the French #Alps last month. These are some of the most idyllic mountains I've ever visited! Lots more here: www.mountainphotography.com/gallery/trek... #mountainphotography #ecrins #frenchalps

La Meije reflects in Lac du Goléon at sunrise. France.

Giant Yellow Gentian wildflowers (Gentiana lutea), with the glaciated peak of La Meije behind.

Mont Pelvoux rises behind a thick patch of cottongrass (Eriophorum) in the French Alps.

Roche Méane (3,712 m / 12,178 ft) reflects in Lac du Pavé after sunset. French Alps.

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Jack Brauer 🏔️📷 @jackbrauer.mountainphotography.com · 01/08/2025

Thank you! These mountains are incredible indeed!

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Jack Brauer 🏔️📷 @jackbrauer.mountainphotography.com · 01/08/2025

This July we did a two-week trek ( #GR54 ) around the Parc National des #Écrins in the French Alps, staying in alpine huts and villages along the way. This was our longest trek yet in the #Alps; check out the full trip report here: www.mountainphotography.com/gallery/trek... #mountainphotography

Wildflowers atop le Signal de la Grave, with a spectacular view of La Meije (3,983 m / 13,068 ft) in the French Alps.

Mont Pelvoux (3,946 m / 12,946 ft) reflects in a creek at sunrise. The historic Refuge Tucket is visible to the left. Parc National des Écrins, France.

The jagged peaks of Roche Méane (3,712 m / 12,178 ft) reflect in Lac du Pavé at sunrise in Parc National des Écrins, France.

A glacier-fed brilliant turquoise creek meanders through a meadow with several waterfalls in Écrins National Park in France.

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Jack Brauer 🏔️📷 @jackbrauer.mountainphotography.com · 11/06/2025

In early June the aspen forests on the flanks of La Sal Mountains above #Moab, #Utah are bursting with greenery, wildflowers, and birdsong.

Yellow wildflowers and vibrant greenery in a lush aspen forest in La Sal Mountains, Utah.

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