Daybreak on El Chaltén (also known as Mount Fitz Roy). The name means Smoking Mountain in Tehuelche, the language of the ancient nomadic hunters who lived in this part of Patagonia. They named it so because the mountain is almost always shrouded in cloud. I spent three days here back in 2016 with Christian Heeb and our group and was fortunate to have clear views each day. But this, the morning of our second day, was by far the most spectacular!
Canon 5DsR, polarizer, 24-70mm lens at 53mm, 1/200 second, f/11, ISO 400. I had to really scramble for this photo. We had been hiking around photographing all morning and were just getting back to the car when the lenticular cloud formed and the first band of light hit the foreground. I knew it would all be lit up in seconds, so I bumped up the ISO, ran to this spot and clicked off a couple of exposures handheld.
