Alpine chalet in the fog

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Last summer I was hiking around in the Italian Alps, when I got to this really cool chalet, on a very high pass, in the middle of some rocky peaks.

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The picture has been edited with RawTherapee then GIMP.

A bit of the background story… This pass is called Santner Pass. The chalet has been very recently re-opened by a young crew. They’re very friendly and motivated. You can find them here. Make sure to stop by if you hike around here… although is a bit difficult to just pass by here without aiming for it :smile:.
It’s a quite high pass, where you should enjoy a beautiful scenery… except from the day we get there last August, since a bunch of clouds decide to sit there exactly when we arrived at the pass. No panorama. I anyhow grabbed the camera and tried to snap some image. There were a few moments of less fog that I tried to exploit.

Feel free to let me know what you think.

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Very nice! I like the leading line of the path and the edge of the cliff on the right. The fog adds an air of mistery!

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Nice shot! Overall composition and colours are on point.

One small thing I noticed: The chalet seems to be leaning over a bit, rotating the image slightly counter-clockwise will solve that.

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Thanks!
I’m quite happy that I could make something cool out of quite bad conditions. While I was there I really liked the place and the composition naturally pooped in my head… but I was frustrated by the conditions and that I could not get a cool shot. But I did well to persist, take some shots nevertheless and then experiment a bit with them.

True, now I can’t help but see that :smile:. Good catch, thanks, now I can fix it before printing.