Descent from Beinn Mac Duibh

[Chairman Bill]

Dropping down from the highest peak in the Cairngorms, towards the Lairig Ghru, the highest mountain pass here.

[stamper]

I like this. Processing absolutely spot on but why no red jacket? 

[Diego Pigozzo]

Beatiful post-processing.
About the format, may I suggest a 16:9 crop? I think that both the upper and the lower part of the shot somehow steal the attention from the beautiful curves in the middle of the frame.

[Chairman Bill]

Not quite sure why there should be a red jacket

And a 16x9 crop, just because

[stamper]

Not quite sure why there should be a red jacket

And a 16x9 crop, just because

An old joke from my camera club days. Whenever a landscape type image, such as your own was displayed, inevitably there would be someone in it with a red anorak and if there wasn't somebody would  ask....where's the red jacket?

[Chairman Bill]

Well a little later it started raining, and my mate Mike (who you can see in the photo) did don his red Crux wetproof smock.No photos though, I'm afraid.

BTW, glad you like the processing

[francois]

Very nice landscape shot with great shapes. It's a great invite to hiking.

[Bob_B]

+1, especially the processing. When was this taken?

[Chairman Bill]

Bob, it was a couple of years ago

[RSL]

Isaac's right. Outside of that, it's a fine shot. The lesson to take away is: In a situation like this, keep shooting. Don't be satisfied with a single frame. You usually can't do that with street photography, but this isn't street photography. Unlike 11 x 14 sheet film, digital files are cheap.

[Rajan Parrikar]

Beautiful scene, well captured. The hiker adds little to the image.

[stamper]

Unfortunate that the crown of the hiker's head is similar in size and tone to the adjacent boulders, and aligns with the edge of the mountain-top. (Gestalt continuation.)

No image is perfect and imo perfection shouldn't be sought. Unfortunate that the positives in the image weren't commented on, only the "imperfection"

[Chairman Bill]

Next time I'll tell Mike to get a bloody move on & get his head clear of the line of boulders. 

But yes, I take the point that compositionally, it would look better to have that clear separation. Thanks for the comments

[stamper]

His head could have been in the clouds and somebody would still have found something "unfortunate"

[seamus finn]

Beautiful tones.