I’ve been on a bit of a HDR photography kick lately, now that I’ve realized that a lot of modern devices (almost everything Apple, almost everything Android, almost all TVs, and many Windows systems) can support a wider color gamut and higher brightnesses than the 2000s-vintage displays that we’ve used as a standard for the past couple decades. I wrote about some of the technical issues a week or two ago, and now I’d like to share a few images and explain why I’m trying to make HDR images work ubiquitously online.
I got up early on Saturday to go take some landscape pictures. The weather in the Seattle area has been either raining or snowing for a couple weeks, but Saturday’s forecast called for a mix of rain, clouds, and sun across the area. When I woke up in the morning, my first choice of photography locations was calling for another half inch or rain, but my second choice was calling for a mix of light snow and sun, so I decided to give it a shot.
So, I headed out to the Cascade River Road in Marblemount, WA. I’ve driven through Marblemount on the way to the North Cascades, and I’ve always wondered what was up this way, but had never actually driven up the Cascade River Road. Technically, the road is marked as “closed” for the winter, but that’s really just the last few miles, leaving lots of room for photography.

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A personal photography outing to Cascade River Road in Marblemount, WA, showcasing HDR landscape images shot in winter conditions. The author explains the motivation for pursuing HDR photography given widespread modern display support, shares multiple images of fog, moss, streams, and snow, and notes that most shots were taken with a Hasselblad X2D II and 35-100mm zoom lens. Viewers are encouraged to use HDR-capable displays for the best experience.

Cascade River Road in HDR