Scene Throughout a Day - Anna Pfluke

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Taken around 11am

taken around 1pm

taken around 4 pm

taken around 5:30-6 pm


      I was sick this weekend, so I decided to take photos of the tip of Mount Baker as seen from my apartment for accessibility purposes. This proved challenging as I was navigating an unfamiliar camera that does not preview the photos, so it took a lot of changing settings to try to get photos that even captured the mountain at all. I found that earlier in the day when the snow was reflecting a lot of bright light, it was hard to get any definition in the mountain without having the entire background blend into brightness. To get a view of the mountain I changed the exposure, aperture, white balance, and shutter speed every time, but I do not remember the exact settings I used.  
    Throughout the fall and winter, I have watched Baker become more covered with snow. In early January before the dry spell and relatively warmer temperatures, the snow encroached down the foothills towards Lake Whatcom, but has long since melted. Having moved to Bellingham in the past 2 years, I was curious about what an average snowfall year at Mount Baker looks like and if that has been affected by climate change, so I did some research. I found data on the annual total snowfall on Baker in inches from the year 1970-current. The driest year received only 277 inches in 1980, and the wettest year received 1,140 inches in 1988. It seems to average around 600 inches per year, and there seems to be no significant decline or increase in precipitation due to climate change. This is somewhat consistent with what I have heard scientists predict about the effects of climate change in the Pacific Northwest (more specifically Bellingham) region; that we will receive slightly more precipitation in the fall, winter, and spring, and have slightly hotter and drier summers. 


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