This shot was already planned for so long, but in last time I always prefered more challenging, more complex compositions for vistas and lost sight to simple images, which really can get very strong - even through their simplicity!

And the composition of this image is really simple: 7 mountain layers with a gently layering effect through a little haze in the air to get a feeling of depth. The really challenge for this shot was to predict the conditions - gaps in the clouds, which spots sunlight through.

As I saw in the weather maps, that there were a chance for gaps in the midlayer clouds at a daytime and time in the year where the angle of the sun would fit for this composition, I hiked up the mountain in the opposite side - to get a working perspective and balance between the layers - set up with my long lens and waited for gaps. Finally I was so happy as I got a light spot exactly at the major element of my composition - the s-curve valley in the centre of the image. Landscape photography is really amazing!

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Photopgrapher: Christian Irmler - great-great grandnephew of Gustav Klimt (6th degree)

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