Photographed in northern Tanzania, the locals believe this mountain has spiritual qualities. They climb to the summit several times a week, but only up the north face and only very early in the morning, for it is thought that no human should be at its peak any other time of day.
This area is very dry and dusty and the swirling winds bring lots of particulate matter into the atmosphere creating strange hues early morning and evening.
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ISO 800 1/50, f/7.1 @70mm
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10 commentsAgain, very pretty shot.
I am having a hard time with the color on this one. Although deep shades of magenta are certainly possible in nature, they are more commonly associated with alpen glow on Velvia film, or other twilight lighing. Here, the sun appears to be a ways above the horizon based on the direction of the shadows. At this time of day, the light should be quite clean and only slightly orange.
Across from this mountain there are a series of plateaus and peaks which the sun is starting to set beyond. Your correct it is still actually fairly high in the sky (if I remember around 4or 5pm) and interestingly I have an image from here nearly 20 minutes earlier with much more orange and deep greys. Our guide stated that although there is not a lot of keystone wildlife in the area that photographers have more recently come for the changing lighting and patterns.
I believe this peak is somewhere around 9,500 feet. The locals climb it surprisingly fast, when they take small groups up, they have to be much more moderate in speed.
Although I am fine with the interpretation here, I agree with Ben and see a strong color cast.