Thank you, Erik and Akira.
Akira - the Scottish mountains are nor very high - up to 1400m. The highest in this image, Ben Lawers, is 1214m, and the shaded valley-floor on the left is at around 450m. so the height gain, up to the summit of B. Lawers is ~760m.
Ok, I've been tempted but be careful - I have thousands of images of these hills . . .
1. The Tarmachans ridge path in summer.
2. The Ben Lawers range from Sron a' Chlachain ("Village Hill").
3. Meall Corranaich from mid-height on Beinn Ghlas.
4. Tarmachan and Lawers ranges from Sron a' Chlachain.
Oooohhh! (clapping hands).
The more I see, the more I love it.
Plus - it has to be said - a very competent photographer has been at work. Blooming excellent!
I have again a strange feeling about some of the images.
The summer view has some of the high-microcontrast effects I noticed before with the snowy pano - which in the small version on my screen shows a halo at high contrast edges, most notably in the shadow/sunlight transition in the mid-foreground left hand side.
My guess is that the summer view is again a scan from film, as possibly the third in this series, as they have similarly strange micro-contrast characteristics.
As you say, it may well be that this is far less evident in full resolution file and even more on print.
The last instead is so crisp that I would be surprised it has not been taken with one of your high MP FX cameras.
I very much envy you...
