Although the building in the frame makes it difficult to fit into the concept of a landscape, I tried to do it in such a way that the presence of the hut is as intrusive and distracting as possible. Architecture is often photographed in a way where one side is always lit to emphasise the volume of the building, while in this case, I waited for the sun to hide behind the clouds to take this shot.
I love when the crocuses are in full bloom, and for this purpose, the weather needs to be warm, but I don’t like when they are directly lit, as their colours burn out. In addition, the sun would also illuminate the building and make its presence more tangible, while I was looking for a way to fit the hut into the landscape as much as possible, as if it were an integral part of it. So after I found the desired position in which to include the snow-capped peaks, the lake, the front plan(crocuses) and the hut, I just had to wait for the clouds to cover the sun. The shot follows some very well-known rules (like the Rule of Thirds) where it is “1/3 winter + 2/3 spring” to show the passing winter before the coming spring.
The Ribnoto Lake is the sixth lake in the group of the Seven Rila Lakes and is located at 2184m above sea level, north of the Haramiyata peak, also called the Black Rock. The peak rises 2465 meters above sea level and is located in the eastern part of the “Seven Rila Lakes” cirque. Haramiyata is a typical example of an alpine carling peak, formed by the exaggerated activity of several neighbouring cirque glaciers located on both sides of the ridge in the current cirques of the Seven Lakes and the Chanakgyol Lakes.
