As fantastic as the opportunities were, with the great weather and all, these photos gave me fits. There was so much distance between us and the mountain (about 25 miles) that fighting haze became a major issue in post-capture. We didn't know the bus was going to stop when it did, so I just grabbed the camera and made a beeline to the vantage points without taking the time to mount a polarized filter, which I carried with me everywhere. Nevertheless, we have some passable frames from a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity.
The alignment of the tree branches with the side of the mountain in this case was done on purpose. Another time, however, during a shoot at the Houston Zoo, matching angles was quite by accident, as in the photo linked here. I had posted the pic in my cubicle at work and was looking at it one day - probably a year or more later - and observed that the angle of the giraffe's neck match the shadows perfectly! No bragging rights, though...
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