Sneffels Window

Gallery: LandscapePosted October 28, 2015192 views14 comments

Mount Sneffels makes its appearance through a window in the morning clouds. There were too many low clouds for a colorful sunrise, but this scene ended up being special and making one of my favorite images from the trip to the San Juans of Colorado in early October.

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Comment posted by scott lanz on October 28, 2015 at 10:49 PM

Wow, Doug. Killer image. You were blessed with amazing light and atmospheric conditions, and certainly did well with them. Congrats. devil

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Comment posted by gary phillips on October 28, 2015 at 11:56 PM

Love this one Doug. Says fall in every possible way. Kudos, awesome work.

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Comment posted by Harley Goldman on October 29, 2015 at 9:59 AM

Yep, love this!! Great dramatic scene. Excellent.

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Comment posted by Roel Wijtmans on October 29, 2015 at 12:29 PM

The forest looks very nice, and this would in fact have worked as a pano for me as well, but the mountain framed by the clouds is just splendid! You got the perfect clouds for this shot, nice job.

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Comment posted by Nick Bristol on October 29, 2015 at 2:13 PM

Fantastic image, Doug! The conditions were wonderful and you really captured it. Beautiful work!

Nick Bristol Lone Rock, WI.

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Comment posted by Albert Darmo on October 29, 2015 at 3:03 PM

Hi Doug

Agree with Harley's and Scott's comments !! " Great dramatic scene". " and you were blessed with amazing light and atmospheric conditions "... a breathtaking scene devil

Albert Darmo
Canada

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Comment posted by Ryan Shain on October 29, 2015 at 6:38 PM

Hi Doug,

This image is the essence of Autumn, and the composition flows wonderfully in this capture. Pretty much, you nailed this iamge with wonderful atmosphere, light and color.

Excellent!!!

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Comment posted by Doug Koepsel on October 29, 2015 at 9:36 PM

Thanks for all the comments. I was wondering if maybe the saturation in luminosity mode of the yellow/orange is too high for the aspens.

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Comment posted by Wayne Jones on October 29, 2015 at 11:39 PM

Wow, I can see why this is one of your favorites! I think that a colorful sunrize may have detracted from some of the wonderful autumn effect of this image. Mountain, clouds and foreground trees look great. The only tiny change I might suggest would be toning down some of the brightness (or maybe saturation) of some of the yellow leaves in that triangle extending form the right side into the center of the scene. They look good as presented, but I think a little less "oomph" might bring out the details there to match the rest of the picture.

UPDATE: Ha! When I hit the comment button, I saw your comment above mine. Guess we think alike. Your idea is worth a try, but I would not want to change it too much.

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Comment posted by D.A. Edwards on October 30, 2015 at 1:31 AM

Feels like a once in a great while combination of elements, light and color. I especially like the little bit of creek that I can see which provides a subtle counterpoint to the mountain above.

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Comment posted by Aaron Feinberg on October 30, 2015 at 3:24 AM

Very cool!

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Comment posted by Mark Seaver on October 30, 2015 at 5:07 PM

How cool to get the mountain top poking through the clouds set off by those glorious yellow Aspens in the foreground. The darker part of the sky is distinctly purple, which has me wondering how toning that down would look.

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Comment posted by Joe James on November 1, 2015 at 7:40 PM

Super cool, I love the way Mount Sneffels is poking up through the clouds with all of the aspens down below.

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Comment posted by David Schoen on November 6, 2015 at 2:13 PM

This has emotional appeal to me as I spent 10 years in Colorado in the 60's and 70's. I spent a fair amount of time in the mountains; Aspen trees in September and October are just so impressive. This is a terrific composition.

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