Winnipesaukee Spring

The view form Mount Major's summit in the Lake's Region of central NH is pretty sweet, but the crowds can be pretty thick up there. I figured I couldn't improve on what's out there for images, so I've neglected photographing it over the years. The peak is very accessible and normally difficult to avoid people in the shot. After looking online, I was surprised that there were few quality shots so I figured I'd give it a try. I spent an evening and morning up there this spring and found composing an image was more difficult than I thought. The mountains seem much closer than the view through a wide angle lens, so it does loose some impact. FG were a problem, as small trees often disrupted the view in all of the wrong places. I settled on a slight zoom using a 24-105L and stitching 4 shots taken vertically to help give the mountains more emphasis while still breaking up the green FG with some rock ledges. A diffused sunset helped the sky, but I was hoping for more- maybe next time!

ISO: 1250 to prevent tree blur in the wind; f16 4 image stitch
Amazingly very little noise easily corrected during the RAW conversion.