One of the prettiest villages in Europe

One of the research tools I use to find great locations when I travel is post cards. Every place I visit wants to show off their most beautiful attributes in post cards, and I often find great shooting opportunities this way. This is the town of Colmar in France, and this particular view is not obvious when you are in the center of the town. I was looking through post cards in a shop and saw this vantage point, and I asked the shopkeeper where it was. She said just two blocks away. I might very well have missed it, but I'm glad I didn't. It's one of the prettiest village settings in Europe. The dusk lighting caused the image to go quite blue, which I like, and I bumped the colors up a bit in post-processing. I captured this with a 70-200mm telephoto (set to 78mm) which accounts for the slight compression, and the settings were 2.5 seconds, f/11, and 200 ISO. Obviously I used a tripod.