Spitzkoppe by Dirk Ehrentraut

Sunday, 1st March 2009

Spitzkoppe

by Dirk Ehrentraut

Also called Matterhorn of Namibia.

Equipment: Canon EOS 20D

Dirk Ehrentraut

www.dirk-ehrentraut.de

18 Comments

Su Says:
March 1st, 2009 at 1:16 am
Beautiful shot, liked youre website was this really taken in
Su Says:
March 1st, 2009 at 1:17 am
oops, 2005?
Katherine Lee Strassburg Says:
March 1st, 2009 at 3:34 am
Very nice photo. The lighting is very good–the highlight on the high peak and on the low smaller rocks really center the eye and help us understand the scale. I also like your website–especially ‘Little Wild Horse Canyon’.
James and Kelly Stone Says:
March 1st, 2009 at 4:16 am
Nice photo and great website. Congratulations.
Pauline Jones Says:
March 1st, 2009 at 10:30 am
I wonder what this is like to climb.
Malta Photography Says:
March 1st, 2009 at 10:39 am
Very nice indeed I liked the way the light falls on every part of the image and the clouds are just wonderful.
Teresa Teresa Says:
March 1st, 2009 at 11:04 am
That cloudy sky is impressive, made this image look still more impressive! Light is beautiful!
Mandy Kilpatrick Says:
March 1st, 2009 at 11:43 am
The colors are so bright, and the lines so crisp and clear, I did a double take when I saw this one. It is so perfect it doesn’t look real at first…. Congratulations on your POTD !!
Mandy Kilpatrick Says:
March 1st, 2009 at 11:45 am
I don’t know Alex…I have been a tourist before and my pictures didn’t look this good. But then my camera …… lol.
planet lover Says:
March 1st, 2009 at 1:50 pm
Very nice picture. I hope to see it some day with my own eyes. The light at the top and the trees below caught my eye. Bald mountain?
Derek Dobbie Says:
March 1st, 2009 at 4:14 pm
This is a good snap shot and with a £1200 camera so it should be…..no mobile phone camera is going to get this quality….lovely colours and light.
Katherine Lee Strassburg Says:
March 1st, 2009 at 5:28 pm
Thanks, Mandy! I know Alex hates water and rocks, but I really would like to know what would impress him. Actually, I’m so glad to have a site that offers so many different points of view–pictorial and editorial. Keep us striving, Alex!
Marie Dunphy Harding Says:
March 1st, 2009 at 6:36 pm
The cloud puffs really promote the blue & orange colors; Beautiful!
Alex Says:
March 1st, 2009 at 8:03 pm
I’m glad I stimulated some reactions! As a pro photographer and journalist involved also as judge, in my free time, in many amateur photo contests, book contests, etc… I’m accustomed to review average or low quality results; the vast majority of photos actually are so, while the authors always think they have created masterpieces, perhaps because they are using expensive equipment and can play around with photoshop… Reality is different. Creativity and originality belongs to very few. Let’s not kid each other, a photo like Spitzkoppe wouldn’t even be able to enter a mid-school photo contest.
Sue Gagnon Says:
March 3rd, 2009 at 5:31 pm
Bright, crisp and clean, I believe this is a great shot, and humbly disagree with you, Alex.
mike Says:
May 15th, 2009 at 4:17 pm
It looks like the mountain can touch the clouds.
renee Says:
March 1st, 2010 at 2:48 pm
the clouds are beautiful…
Su Says:
March 1st, 2010 at 6:30 pm
Nice shot and boy has it caused a debate.