I've photographed Mt. Fitzroy in Patagonia from many different angles, with different lenses, and in different lighting conditions. Sometimes the clouds are amazing but they might be low enough to obscure the peak, and sometimes you can't see the mountain at all because the cloud cover is so low. This picture is the result of a seven mile hike one way to be able to use the waterfall as a foreground. We started at 4am, in the dark, to arrive at the falls before sunrise. My photo tours here are usually timed for autumn colors because the southern beech trees, especially, are stunning when they turn red, orange, and yellow. My settings for this picture were 0.3 seconds, f/16, and 100 ISO. I used a small aperture to insure the image would be tack sharp from the rocks in the foreground to the distant peaks. That, in turn, forced the shutter speed to be slow so the falling water blurred.
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