Morning View

Summer wildflowers and sunrise alpenglow on Mt Adams from the Goat

Rocks Wilderness in Washington.

This image was created on a cool and crisp morning during a 4 day

backpacking trip in the Goat Rocks last week.

Thanks for taking a look and for any comments you have. I appreciate

them all!

What a colourful composition. I was quite startled to see the flowerbed in the foreground. It immensely added to the viewing pleasure.

Scott ...very nice composition and presentation. Some clouds in the sky would have made the image more dramatic. Awesome none the less. Regards - Anis.

Scott,  Excellent image in excellent light.  The lupines and clouds certainly create a most effective composition.  You may want to add more sharpness on the mountain only.  I tried this in ACR, and it seemed to work well.  The final judgment about the sharpening is yours, of course.  Thanks for posting this as I haven't seen this close a glimpse of Mt. Adams before.  Best to you.  Larry

A gorgeous, beautifully composed, image Scott! Lovely colors, and excellent atmosphere.

All the best,
Neil

Beatiful colors, excellent composition, congrats. 

Beautiful shot with great colours. You have such a range of purples, lilacs and pinks in the shot that add to the atmosphere. Well seen and executed, best wishes William.

I agree with Larry about more sharp on the mountain.  I add too that I'd try without so many hot color hue on it.  The too shadowed lupine don't work nice with the upper portion of frame IMO.

On the other hand, the gradation on sky and low clouds are really breathaking for me.  If you should have had any soft cloud on this sky it sould be on the top.

And placing the Adams not so centered? 5.5/7

Beautiful picture! I love the pink tones cast by the low sun angle and even lighting on flowers. 

Beautiful colors, you captured a calm morning very good.

A wonderful photo with fantastic colours. I personally have a bit of a problem with the composition since I find that the lupines and the mountain are competing for attention and I cannot decide which to look at. It is a bit like having two different photos to look at at the same time. For me it would have been even more effective if the bottom had been cropped a bit so that the flowers set the colour tone at the bottom edge for a wonderful shot of the mountain rather than being one of the main elements in the photo. However, you do have to stop and marvel at the colours!

Thanks so much to everyone for all of the comments. 

For the sharpening issue, I will have to take a closer look at what's going on.  I uploaded the image at 900px wide, but it seems to be changing the size to make it fit the standard format (and the result is a softer image).  I agree that the smaller version looks soft on the mountain, but when I click on the image and make it larger it looks fine.

For the colors - it's and artistic decision on how I processed the image.  I like big bold scenes and I remember the mountain just glowing a pink hue that morning, so that's how I processed the image.

For the comp - I appreciate hearing everyone's thoughts on the comp.  I purposely arranged this comp to include the foreground flowers.  To me this is a layered comp starting with the sky, mountain, fog, middle ridge and flowers. If I take away any one of these elements, the image doesn't work for me.

Thanks again to everyone for your thoughts!

Scott, gorgeous light and cleanly separated layers. Very nice work here!

Scott, this is a beautiful view -- it looks just as I would expect to see it had I been standing here.  It's a perfect time of day with great light, and the valley fog is an especially welcomed element.  I like the light on the lupines; they're still in shadow although very visible, but I think they complement rather than compete with the mountain in your composition.  Very nicely done -- I wouldn't change a thing.  You're right about the sharpness on the mountain -- to me, it looks fine when in large view, but slightly softer at normal size.  Did you use focus stacking to achieve this very large depth of focus?