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Three fourths the way up the well maintained trail (Friends of Badger Mountain, this gusty wind and rain spitting day in southeastern Washington State, USA, the atmosphere here provided a rich and dramatic gray sky with near rainbow levels of light and moisture. With not-quite-enough sunlight to make the wish come true I turned to Photoshop to compose sky and gulls from a few previous days of shooting for this event. The rainbow, which only a week before this spring equinox was gloriously revealing itself for several days in a row, eluded me on this day's outing and so is fabricated by more Photoshop gradient fill and polar-coordinates filter trickery. Atmosphere as illusion? The shrub-step view and the meadowlark song birds unique to this area are real, and were spactacular this day, with plenty of obvious housing growth and the mighty Columbia meandering downstream from the steadily leaking waste tanks (!) of the Hanford Nuclear Reservation, through Richland, Pasco, and Kennewick communities respectively, and on to the gorgeous Columbia River Gorge toward the Portland, Oregon metropolitan area and further west into the Pacific Ocean. Desert in Washington? : the shrub-step environment
Hanford nuclear waste - damage to natural resources read more about Hanford See more 'Atmosphere' and panos of The Pacific Northwest-US, and The Dominican Republic, etc. 
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