A last glance, before it's gone.

It's a few months I've not been high in the Alps, and this is the last

memory I have. After a great day, the clouds moved in, above 3300m

a.s.l., and engulfed everything. So, I'm emotionally attached to this

shot... I wonder if there is anything of photographical value, though.

The mountain (yes, there is one) is quite small, the clouds are a bit

burned, and I guess this will sail disastrously through the rating

being very monitor-dependent...

What do *you* think about it?

well captured, dramatic passing moment, cheers Jana

I am a big fan of cloudscapes, and this is surely an exceptionally dramatic moment and great scenery (not being a mountaineer, I can only try to reproduce your feelings there). Photographically, it would be an outstanding shot for me with something generating a feeling of the dimensions for me, an aeroplane, a tiny silhouette of a person climbing on the mountain - hard to realize, I know that.

Cheers

Carsten

Jana, thanks, indeed, that was a short moment, the clouds very soon engulfed the mountain and that was the end of the show

Charles, indeed the centre of the picture shows a mountain (which we had climbed I guess exactly one year before this photo was taken, give or take a couple of days). The rationale behind the shot was to get the last possible view on that one, before the clouds would have it their ways. As for the contrails, I feel as you, but I'm always a bit pulled back when it comes to the clone tool

Carsten, I agree that a human figure somewhere would give the sense of scale... on the other hand I've many shots exactly with such a composition, so for once I had done something different... at any rate, there would have been no way to get anything onto the ridge in the lower left: it's quite far and this was shot with a 20mm(x1.5). I will keep this in mind for the next time clouds come up, though...At any rate, if you like people and clouds, you might want to check out this one

Richard, actually this photo had sat for long on the disk of images from this summer... I guess I'm allergic to burnt-out highlights and I was annoyed by them. Also I had some doubts about the dead-centre composition of the peak. I am glad you like it. As for the contrails, the fact is that many routes cross just above the Alps, and it is often a challenge not to get any of them in the direction of the peaks you're shooting at... See for instance this discussion or even this shot where I deliberately used them.