Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Image:Rhonegletscher.jpg

 
Original - Rhone Glacier with a thunderstorm passing
 
Edit 1 by Fir0002 - tweaks to contrast/colour/lighting
Reason
It all started with a beautiful day where I wanted to walk from canton of Uri to canton of Valais (Furka pass with Rhone glacier in between). As I was walking up the mountain more and more clouds came up. That's why I aborted the plan to go all the way up. I took the bus and went to the hotel in front of Rhone glacier almost on top of the pass. By the time I arrived in front of Rhone glacier there was just this thunderstorm passing. I've never seen such black clouds! No question I wanted to take a picture of this scene. But how to make a panoramic without a panoramic head? Because of the heavy snow falls in winter all the railings on the way to Rhone glacier are made out of wooden beams sticked on steel tubes. In winter you just remove the wooden part. So I put my camera on one of these rotating wooden beams where I expected the nodal point and rotated the camera around that steel tube. I think it's an exceptional image. --Ikiwaner (talk) 20:43, 14 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]
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Rhone Rhône Glacier
Creator
Ikiwaner

Promoted Image:Rhonegletscher.jpg MER-C 10:26, 21 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]