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Mountain scenes are very difficult to photograph. The very size of them defeats the use of the most interesting light of the day – early morning and evening – unless you happen to be lucky and in a good place. Their distance from the camera adds haze and blue cast to the image, effectively de-contrasting the more faraway images.

This shot was taken in a valley in Waterton Lakes National Park. I was in shadow, as was most of the foreground. Only the peaks of the far mountains were in direct sunlight. To make anything out of this image, I had to use the Photoshop 'Multiply' blending option (as described here) to sharpen up the peaks.

I debated lightening up the foreground more, but this was pretty much as it was. Of course, as always, this picture is no substitute for being there!

(You can see the unimproved original here)