First Light of Dawn

One early morning in the North Cascades a few years ago.

I remember waking up at 2am and hiking in the dark to reach this location in time to catch the morning light. I scrambled to find a composition as the light was getting good, which is always a challenge. I ended up settling on this 4-image pano using the beautiful snowy slopes in front of me as the foreground. Today I probably would have edited it a bit differently, but here was the result I came up with then.