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14 Jul 17 Comment Thank you all for your helpful comments. The mountains were lighted through drifting holes in dense clouds. The sun spot is warm daylight, the rest being it by sunlight filtering through heavy blue clouds. This added more (naturally) blue color the the normal blue of distant mountains.

I have one major bone to pick with the comments. In the histogram of this image, the brightest of the snow just touches, deliberately, the high end; simply turning up the Brightness forces the bright areas into saturation, losing interesting but subtle detail in the snow. If you want brighter snow, you can get it by making the rest relatively darker. You can do that simply by using Levels and moving the black point a bit higher. I think it would then be necessary to do a number of additional local adjustments to tone.

And one minor bone. Distant mountains are blue when lit by blue light. This color is accurate; this is the way it looked. Thick clouds are blue because clouds scatter blue light even more than oxygen does to make the sky blue n sunny days. That enhances transmission of the complimentary color, cyan, which is what you see. The cyan of the image is accurate, but I have to agree that blue is more pleasing.

I will see what I can do to incorporate your ideas.

.		 Jul 23rd
14 Jul 17 Comment I've always wanted to visit this place,and your image only reinforces that. I like your unusual viewpoint, and the lighting is quite appropriate, giving detail in the cliffs that I wouldn't have expected.

If it were mine, I would crop from the sides a bit, on the basis that your image is the ruins and the sides only a supporting cast that doesn't deserve so much space. They shouldn't dominate. In the thumbnail I used Color Balance to take out a slightly red cast.

.		 Jul 23rd
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