Contrasts in Altitude

[AntonioCorreia]

What attracts me most in this image is the dialogue of contrasts between light and shadow, snow and rock, smoothness and roughness. The central mountain, sharply outlined against the sky, rises with a severe elegance, marked by vertical lines of ice that seem to slowly run down the slopes.

The pure white of the snow further enhances the dark tone of the rock, as if nature here wanted to underline its layers, its states, its seasons. The loose cloud, almost glued to the slope, reinforces the sensation of altitude and permanent cold.
There is no human presence nor trace of passage but only the trace of the Earth, intact, deep, reminding us that the essential does not shout. The contrasts, far from opposing each other, complement each other.

[LenR]

Antonio, very rugged mountains and glacier. Was this taken in the Andes?

[AntonioCorreia]

Len, like many of my photographs this one was done in India, Himachal Pradesh State, Ladhak, July 2013