I consider this to be one of my best captures because it combines so many contradictions. Dramatic and peaceful, with some depth that one can feel but still with many elements of the rather flat scenery on some shadow theater.
Especially with the darker and not very sharply focused forest in the foreground the image could be seen as some kind of those postcards that unfold and create depth by using many different planes of card, on which the parts of the scenery are drawn.
Hi Olga and thanks a lot for your nice and in depth going comment! I like very much reading such comments like yours, since they do wake my brain for further thinking.
Nature in colors vs nature in B&W, well, at least in the case of mountains with much rocky cliffs, a B&W is almost predestined for enhancing the finest textures and contrasts there. Since the combination of rock and snow by its very nature is almost monochrome, a B&W image is very good suited for subliming the most important part of such views - it cathces "the spirit" of the scene, if you wish.
Add the special meaning of light on a B&W, when the absence of colors enhances the slightest luminocity, and there we have something that remains in our mental view of the world. As you already mentioned, the clouds do something more than being clouds here. On a blue sky they wouldn't shine that much. Same goes for the cloud that comes out from between the mountains.
Hoping to see you you around here some day, here to you a big "cheers" from the mountains.
Dear Nick, I really love this image very much. Mostly because I think it is hard to capture really great image of mountains in black and white. Nature and moutains especially are great in colours because they look lovely, great, huge, powerfull. But it is so hard to make a dramatic image in a tone of black and white. Your image is great, in my opinion it is dramatic as well as it is natural. I like the sky over it, cloudes - soft and white. I like the light here. And I am sure you know that I love it as well because it reminds me beautiful moments of my life I´ve spent in Swiss Alps.
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