Distant Pillars

Thanks for sharing Basil!

Always a big fan of weather in the big mountains, rock faces, smooth glaciated terrain.  Thanks for sharing your vision of this outstanding terrain!

Best wishes:   Tom

The light and rock forms are sweet. I can see how the hut would add scale to the image, but this tighter view works for me. I could see it being even tighter, more off the bottom. Looks like an incredible place to visit. 

Basil,

This is fantastic mountain drama!  The mix of clouds, mist, light and towering rock formations just make for an awesome scene and captured image.  I'm so glad this is in color too so we can see some of the warmth of the light.

The only very minor suggestion I have would be to balance out the color in the patches of snow in the bottom 1/3.  Some snow is a bit cyan, where other patches are more white, neutral.  Otherwise, I like how the canyon/diagonal working up from the bottom also works to lead the eye in to the frame (although honestly, the drama up top already takes us there!)

Well done isolating with the longer focal length.

Lon

This is a very dramatic image. The light is quite spectacular. It really has a lot of impact with respect to composition. I do agree that the color balance in the lower part could be improved with respect to the cyan cast.  What is interesting here is that the image goes from a warm cast to a cool cast. Was that your intention?

Thanks for commenting, everybody!

Regarding the color cast - I actually reduced the cyan/blue in the lower half of the frame quite considerably, but may have to re-visit this due to the blotchyness mentioned. There is a massive difference in color temperature between the lower part (cold, in the shade) and the upper part (warm, illuminated by the setting sun). I think that leaving this uncorrected would render the bottom half with excessive blue cast.
 

Great call on grabbing the long lens.  I like the isolation and the atmosphere (both literal and figurative) of this.   I see a couple of blotches of greater cyan (near the upper right snow field and the upper left one too) and then some funky shadow on the left side where ocean meets rock.

As for the cyan, if this is basalt, it could be naturally bluish, but it is a tish distracting.
ML

What a fantastic shot! This view is amazing that you captured in great light and wonderful conditions. The larger view shows much better details in the foreground and is actually exciting to look at for me. I could see removing some cyan from some of the snow patches although it was probably mostly caused from shadows. Wonderful work, Basil. 

Nick Bristol
Lone Rock, WI

Good decision to narrow down! Striking composition and light.

Terrific telephoto view of the 'smoking' mountain and its a nice one too with a cool peak. The colours are very naturally presented.

I don't know your other version, but it certainly looks like the right decision to me, judging from this photo. Very impressive mountains and gorgeous light make far a stunning moment!

Dramatic landscape and light Basil. Great idea to focus on the landscape.

Great sense of scale and drama.  Real sweet. I would lose the cyan cast in the snow.

Awesome, powerful image.  Talk about soaring heights.  Fantastic.

Stunning.  The bottom resembles a classic Japanese a woodcut.

Almost like a woodcut.  The subtle light hues in sky and on rock create a powerful image.