Looming

I am enjoying this one a lot. I would consider very lightly cloning in some detail in the blown out sections of the mountain, but just a hint of it. Otherwise, works for me. 

From what I've heard about Denali, you were maybe lucky to get this. Bill, I really like the composition here, the dead center placement of Denali gives it the prominence it deserves, and the arrangement of the foreground mountains are very pleasing. I like  all of the great detail in the foreground, but the sky/mountain does feel too hot to me. The detail in the mountain is just on the verge of blowing out, my guess is that you do have the detail there in the raw file. Not sure if you use Lightroom / photoshop, but in this case I would double process the raw file, one for the foreground (which is fine as is), and one for the sky, dropping the exposure and recovering the detail (which i suspect is there if you dropped the exposure one or two stops in Lightroom), then blend the two layers in Photoshop. This is such a strong composition that it certainly deserves the investment of processing time to bring the tonality of the sky down and recapture the detail in the mountain.

I agree with Ed's comments, Bill. This is a very nice image with a fine composition that warrants some additional tweaking.
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That's a bucket list image for me! There's just something about that tundra and the dwarfed trees sparsely scattered about. And too get the mountain in view is just awesome. Would love to see that one day!

This is absolutely lovely, Bill. The layers transition nicely throughout the image and I love the drama with the clouds swirling around Denali. My only suggestion would be to try and coax a little more detail in a couple of the snowy areas on the mountain. Looks like you both had a memorable trip.

Ed

Bill, the sense of Denali mixing with and disappearing into the clouds is great.  This view does a great job of showing off how high Denali is relative to lots of the surroundings.

Bill,

This one almost catches me off guard. I say that because my first impression was a somewhat lackluster landscape.  Nothing much with the foreground hill, flat light, etc.  THEN.... "the mountain" emerges and everything changes.  So initially I didn't even see the mountain - it kind of blends in with the clouds.  But once you see the mountain and Denali emerges, the impression changes.

I've been fortunate enough to witness this and so I have a bit more of a emotional reaction to this.  In the 3 or 4 days we spent at Wonder Lake, and too and from on the buses... we say Denali for maybe 4-6 hours total.

I would agree with the suggestions made already in tweaking this.  

Lon