In mid-June of 2018, I was in the Dolomites with friends on a photo tour. The night before this photo, our workshop leader announced we would leave at 3 am to catch the blue hour at Alpe Di Siusi. This location is the highest alpine pasture in Europe.
We arrived at about 04:15. I walked a few minutes on the track along the beautiful valley to find a pleasing composition and decided on mountain peaks leading up to the sky with the moon showing up as a lone bright element.
I set up my tripod and fitted my wide-angle lens and cable release. I used a 44 mm focal length to compose and frame the image. I overexposed by a 1 stop to have a perfect histogram (ETTR). I took this shot at 04:51.
Later, around 10:00, I photographed some lovely spring flowers. One of these is published on my VIP page.
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