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Morteratsch Glacier

On the Morteratsch glacier in the Bernina Range, Alps, Swizerland

Articles this image appears in: Bernina Range
Self-Nominator: Dschwen

Ok, a little more unusual. I took this pic last year on the Morteratsch glacier in the Bernina Range (swiss alps). The ski run down the glacier was just opened (depends on the snow conditions), and the trip constituted the most scary 1.5 hours in my life. The picture is of high resolution and shows the glacier from a less common perspective with a wave-like crevasse structure. Some trails by animals and skiers hint the scale and provide a tiny foreground (intentional! in case someone wanted to crop or photoshop...). The exposure turned out quite well (with room for sparkling highlights in the snow, check full size). It's a >10 frame panoramic.

Support — Dschwen 17:24, 9 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
weak support - lovely of course and technically better than fine, but the inconspicuous sky left me wondering for a while if the perspective was looking down off a ridge, or up from the base of the glacier. I assume it's the latter? Debivort 20:01, 9 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- Up. You can see the sky though the clouds. --Dschwen 20:04, 9 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Weak Support - The brightness of snow looks weird to me. Maybe a slightly logartihmic curve applied to the picture will bring out the brightness of the snow and shadow detail better? --antilived^{T | C | G} 22:55, 9 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Weak Support Edit 1. Nice but would have preferred if the mountain tops weren't cut off (or is this not possible?) --Fir0002 23:01, 9 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Support either. --KFP (talk | contribs) 23:08, 9 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Support either It must have been nice and warm from the looks of all that snow. ;-) Nice hi-res picture Dschwen. | AndonicO ^{Talk | Sign Here} 23:41, 9 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Weak support original. Spctacular vista. Two issues: 1. The mountaintop in the background top left looks kind of odd. I can't tell if that's a stitching error or an odd cloud formation. 2. The snow glare looks kind of artificially muted. I'm not a big fan of the blue-ified version in edit 1. ~ trialsanderrors 00:21, 10 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Weak Support Edit 1 - I don't see a stiching error in the mountaintop... --Iriseyes 03:36, 10 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Support original, edit 1 is just higher contrast. It was perfectly fine the way it was. Noclip 04:26, 10 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Support either both are fine from my standards (and the FPC's :) Arjun 01:51, 11 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Support with minor pref for edit 1. —Dgies^t c 08:31, 11 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Comment. The edit is a bit too blue. Your eyes adjust better than that, especially at full res I strongly prefert the color balance of the original. --Dschwen 09:42, 11 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Support original InvictaHOG 12:01, 11 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Support original I really don't prefer longer pictures but this is a rather excellent one. It shall tis most likely beith a feeaytoured pictour. Why1991 02:26, 12 January 2007 (UTC)
Support Original I like the darker tones of the original to Edit 1. S h a r k f a c e 2 1 7 20:38, 12 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Weak support edit 1 — The original looks like light dust. Fir's edit actually looks like snow, though there seems to be a bit too much blue; the saturation needs to be toned down. ♠ SG →Talk 22:02, 12 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Support original only. I like both the higher resolution and natural color of the original. --Tewy 01:58, 13 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Support. Very fine panorama. de:Morteratschgletscher should be translated to EN Wiki. - Darwinek 01:18, 14 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- Working on it :-). At Morteratsch Glacier. --Dschwen 12:57, 17 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Support edit 1. Really cool :-). Ilikefood 02:19, 15 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Support original. Agree that the edit is a little too blue, although I think the original could be lightened ever so slightly but this is just aesthetics, as opposed to a colour balance issue. Diliff | (Talk) (Contribs) 13:02, 15 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Support Either. I don't personally find the edit too blue, however, I have no real preference. NauticaShad e s 13:52, 15 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Promoted Image:Morteratsch_glacier_1.jpg (8 original / 5 edit / 5 either / 2 unspecified). --KFP (talk | contribs) 23:18, 16 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]