Thanks for the all of the comments on my last photo.

I've been a very frustrated photographer these last few months, having few opportunities to get out and do pictorial stuff. So it was nice to be out on Saturday doing what I love for a change, even if it was only for about an hour.
To answer your question, TheReef: not really. We got up there too late. I had just set down all of my bags and saw the light on the ruins. My tripod was still in its case. I had just enough time to click that one shot of the ruins--very unusual for me, as I almost always come away from a composition with a series of images, especially when the light is changing quickly. This time the sun was rapidly retreating behind a bank of clouds, and that one single exposure was all I got.
I then turned around and saw a last remnant of light on some crazy clouds over the mountains in the opposite direction, so I whipped out my other camera (which had a longer lens mounted), and clicked exactly two exposures in that direction. My final, futile move was to set up my tripod, but by the time I had a camera mounted on it, there was nothing left to shoot.
I left that hilltop feeling really disappointed, wishing we hadn't made a first stop in a misty field beforehand. I had no idea that the one handheld shot of the ruins turned out as well as I could have hoped. By some miracle, it came out wonderfully sharp without a tripod or lens stabilization, and by some other miracle, I didn't screw up anything else either. Ordinarily I would devote a lot more time and technology to a shot, but my normal approach probably wouldn't have gained me anything in this case. I just got very lucky.
Anyway, for what it's worth, here's what was left of the light looking in the opposite direction, one of the two exposures I took looking north, before the day's show was over. Mountaintop sunsets aren't really my thing, but, well…it was there…
Speaking of quick shots...
From my new toy, an iPod touch 4g. What a noisy camera!
Sun behind flower, with some processing via iPhoto.
I really like this photo. Knowing it's a phone shot, I'm happy to think away the technical deficiencies and enjoy it as a very well seen composition and great use of light.
Doylem's shack, this morning. Can't recall seeing this much snow in November before...
You see a lot of snow; I see a patch of blue in the sky, a sight that has become woefully unfamiliar in my neck of the woods.
