Slopes of Mt. Shasta (large for detail)

Dear friend, I'm happy to be the first here with my compliments and rate!

Ah! The beautiful Mt. Shasta in Northern California. Your photo captured its majesty superbly. And it will stay that way as long as it doesn't copy its sister, Mt. St. Helens, a few hundred miles north, when she blew her top back in May, 1980.

Beautiful! I love the mellow light, the color tones and the textures.

This is a really bad landscape photo. It's dull, full with noise and totally lacks detail and contrast.

A series of technical mistakes led your photo here.

The most important is that for a landscape photo of a distant object you don't set the aperture at f/16. This forced your camera to raise speed at 1/2.500 and maybe a forgotten setting of ISO at 800 led to this result.

With 210mm (equivalent) focal length (to get the subject close enough) a speed priority programe with 1/400 sec speed (who needs 1/2.500 sec speed for landscape?) would have led to a descent photo with much less noise in it.

It's never too late to go back to photo school to learn the basics...or you can choose to keep on paying attention only to those who praise you.

"A Jerk" as you so politely characterized me.