Santa Maddalena (Val the Funes, Italy)

[vibhav]

This picture was taken in a little village called Santa Maddalena in Val de Funes (Dolomiti). While driving to Santa Maddalena from the Autostrada, you can not imagine such a scene would appear and then it suddenly does...

All evening when I was there, it was completely overcast and I kept wishing for sun light to filter through some how into the valley and make the valley glow in golden light... but that did not happen...

However, a very small beam of sun light did filter though for about 25 seconds which I was lucky to capture.

I have been on the fence about converting this into more of a panorama by cropping the bottom to about where the trail begins... Let me know what you think about it...

[DigitalScape]

Very nice, Vibhav -- great colors in this image. I don't think your cropping will work -- it will leave the trees at the lower left of the frame just kind of there (popping into the frame).

[ggeorge11]

This picture is great just the way it is. Great work.

[vibhav]

Thank you John and Joseph... I tried cropping it but like you guys said, it does not look as nice...

[Angelo]

Vibhav, I've been to this very same site a couple years ago. We shot this scene at morning and evening light. This is one of my favorite sites.
Angelo

[texkam]

I don't think we're in Kansas anymore.

Nice!