Bachsee twilight + repost

What a beautiful landscape. I love the colors in the sky and lake and you captured a lot of detail. I wonder what this would look like with a much longer exposure. Very nice all around image.

Beautiful scene...
excellent capture and processing...
Nicely accomplished.

Beautiful scene. I love the light and sweet reflection.

Beautiful Shantikara! I love the colors and the beautiful reflection! Would love to see the Alps....maybe someday

Lovely scene, I really like this. My first reaction would have been to shoot tighter and vertical.

Swee light indeed. My only reservation is the contrail -like cloud especially on the right. Not sure if it is or not, the curse of sky photographs The shimmer in the reflection is better for me than a perfect reflection. Congrats.

Gorgeous.

Nice shot and I like the sharpness of the image.

Beautiful scene & colors as well as good detail in the mountains. No nits here, very nice image!

Beautiful color and a great reflection; the 50:50 composition works well. Nicely done.

I like the wind rippled water separating the scene and reflections. Colors are gorgeous and comp is nicely framed.

Majestic peaks for sure, and some nice light and reflections. I do find the contrails in the sky distracting, but peaceful scene nonetheless.

Wow, that looks like one beautiful place! I love the colours in the sunset! The reflection of the mountains in the water looks awesome! Congrats!

The Bachsee is on my list for quite a while now and your shot reminds me that I really have to go there. You got some great light and clouds. Unfotunately as so often here in the Alps, a plane decided to cross the harmony.

Great colours and nice reflection.
A beautiful area -

Sandy

Shantikara, Happy New Year to you as well! A beautiful scene with wonderful light and color.

Nick Bristol
Lone Rock, WI

Thank you for the comments!
I agree on the contrail matter, it is a shame. I was considering cloning out the big one on the right.
A long exposure would have helped this, but in that time (2008) I did not work with long exposures yet.
As this is my favorite location, I have many pictures from here, with different lights, clouds, compositions, but the light and the color is the best on this one.
I will post a few more from here. (until it gets boring )

Excellent. Even the jet contrails look good here. Can't think of a thing I'd change.

A classic view. Love the colours.

Really captures the serenity of this beautiful alpine scene, very nice!

Right time, right place. This is terrific.

Beautiful image, just wish the contrail wasn't there.

Stunning shot and reflection, the larger image was a pleasure to view, way to go.

Wonderful beauty Shantikara. (I always feel contrails are fair game for cloning out.)

I cloned out the worst contrails. Little better.

Posts like yours remind me of the fact that I should explore my home country much more. It's almost embarrassing how little time I spend in the mountains.

Anyways, this is an amazing photo. The colors, the composition, and the levels of detail are excellent. The contrails are a real pity (it seems like almost all of those clouds started out as contrails). But there's nothing you can do about that, unfortunately. Great job!

Thanks Basil! Yeah, looking at your gallery I was wondering how did I miss here the sand dunes.
Well I come from a flat land, so for me these huge mountains are very fascinating.

Awesome shot, the repost minus the contrail is even better.