Himalayan Sunrise

Copyright Nathan Montgomery, 2008

In a series of photos taken during a visit to the Himalayas, one expects to see a lot of pictures of mountains. After all, it's the world's grandest range.

But in fact, this may be the only landscape photo I'll post on this blog. My attempts to take pictures from our campsites and clinic locations proved largely frustrating. I may change my mind a few weeks from now, but as of today, this is the only picture I like where the mountains are featured prominently. Even then, the real subject here is the sky.

I took the shot just after 5:00 AM at our campsite in Tingriti. I purposefully underexposed the shot both to make the morning sky dark blue and to give the silhouette appearance to the mountains. The effect that exposure had on the clouds was really unintended, but I think it makes the shot.