Sunday, 1st March 2009
Spitzkoppe
by Dirk Ehrentraut
Also called Matterhorn of Namibia.
Equipment: Canon EOS 20D
Dirk Ehrentraut
Website: www.dirk-ehrentraut.de
Spitzkoppe by Dirk Ehrentraut was photo of the day on Sunday, 1st March 2009. It is tagged Namibia. You can leave a comment below.
19 Comments
Su
Beautiful shot, liked youre website was this really taken in
Su
oops, 2005?
Katherine Lee Strassburg
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
Nice photo and great website. Congratulations.
Pauline Jones
I wonder what this is like to climb.
Malta Photography
Very nice indeed I liked the way the light falls on every part of the image and the clouds are just wonderful.
Teresa Teresa
That cloudy sky is impressive, made this image look still more impressive! Light is beautiful!
Mandy Kilpatrick
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
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
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
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
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
The cloud puffs really promote the blue & orange colors; Beautiful!
Alex
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
Bright, crisp and clean, I believe this is a great shot, and humbly disagree with you, Alex.
mike
It looks like the mountain can touch the clouds.
renee
the clouds are beautiful…
Frank Townsley
Nice subject matter, but needs a foreground and not so much sky. Not beings so centered would improve it also (ie. use ‘law of thirds’).
Su
Nice shot and boy has it caused a debate.