On my way to Alta Mountain, near Snoqualmie Pass in Washington State, USA. Pentax ZX5n; Sigma 24/2.8; Royal Gold 25.
More photos and the story behind the hike can be found at http://www.bigadventures.com/hiking/12
My guess it that this was taken within 2 hours of midday judging by the shadows. More sidelighing (ie. earliar or later) would have improved the shot. I do not like the rock ledge in the forground. Why not have something interesting there? Perhaps a closer view of one of the pines. Maybe a through the branches sort of framing. The landscape is very beautiful however the bland foreground rock ledge just takes too much away from this shot for my taste.
This image would need some really extraordinary lighting to make it interesting as a picture. There are millions of photos like this done each year and there is nothing in this one to set it apart from the rest.
Steve-with all due respect to Franks comment about this image and it's "commoness", it is YOUR image. Enjoy it and be proud of it. I like it for the subject and composition, but it would have been more dramatic during the golden hours. I prefer a.m. light to p.m. pesonally. Otherwise it is a beautiful image. I have yet to make one like it. Then again, I'm just an amateur.
When I take this type of photo, I an usually disappointed. To capture the beauty of detailed lanscape scene seems, at least to me, to beg for a 4X5. To cut to the chase, the Web is a poor format for this type of scene. So this isn't a criticism of the photo but a question as to choice of type of image.
I doubt that this photo wold look any more interesting if it had been taken with a 4x5 camera. Here we have one of the "paradoxes of photography": I am sure the scene was very impressive as you stood there, especially after a long climb/hike. Reduced to a two dimensional sheet of paper it looses so much that as a photograph it becomes uninteresting for those who haven't been there.
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