Kharnak light

Summer evening in the high himalayas often brings a quality of light all it's own, light rays having travelled "once from the sun to ground level,... back up th...
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Summer evening in the high himalayas often brings a quality of light all it's own, light rays having travelled "once from the sun to ground level,... back up through the the atmospheric filter a second time, scattering so much of their blue and purple wavelengths that they appear wholly red by the time they reach their subject.Indeed, a look in the shadows at this time shows a deep bluish purple color, because shadows are lit only by scattered light." - Galen Rowell.
While not the intense colors of extreme altitude, the light here at over 16,000 feet (4,900 meters) glowed with reddish hues on and on.

And so this barren land uncloaks its hidden mysteries, spirit made tangible in the doorway between night and day. Fleeting light ever changing as the air, the breath, all of life through which I move in a nomadic way...and in this there is a harmony - this tent which is my home in a different place each night, these rocks tumbling beneath my feet.

Nikkon D700, Nikkor 17-35mm @ 17mm,
Two exposures blended for sky and land,
25 s and 6 s @ f-16, ISO 200
Singh Ray warming CPL.
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