Mt. Fitzroy, named after Robert FitzRoy, the captain of the HMS Beagle on which Charles Darwin sailed to South America, rises dramatically out of the plains of Argentinian Patagonia. It had snowed the night before, and my photo tour group and I were lucky that the sky cleared to give us this wonderful view. Two years earlier when I led a tour here the clouds were so low they completely obscured the mountains. In fact, it looked like there were no mountains at all. Here, they appear to be so close you feel like you could almost reach out and touch them. I used a medium telephoto focal length -- 84mm -- on a 24=105m lens to slightly compress this shot, and my settings were 1/800, f/8, and 400 ISO. I took this landscape experimenting with different foregrounds. This is one of my favorites.
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