Hi Steemit!

First things first, I am a bloody amateur, but I love photography and try to do my best to improve.

I would like to share a scene I captured in the Andes not far from Putre, Chile. It is one of my favourites, well, maybe because the whole day was a brilliant adventure. We started in Putre, and drove up to the Salar de Surire enjoying the fantastic landscape.

After some hours at >4,000 m altitude I started to feel sick and it got worse and worse over the day. On the way back, in the evening, I started to talk gibberish - well, don't mess with the altitude! However, it was worth it. At sunset, we had this unbelievable view I tried to capture with this photo - also to be sure it wasn't just a hallucination.

I played around with this image for a while and I am not so sure if I should even try to "improve" it. Nature is so beautiful itself. Below you find the original photo, then a second one with some slight changes, and cropped version with some more changes. Which one is your favorite? What would you suggest to get the most out of it?

This is the original.

Here I used a Lightroom preset.

This one was changed manually and cropped.

I hope for some feedback, maybe an experienced person can give me some hints.

Any ideas?

Don't be too hard on me ;-)

If you like it, I'd be very happy to share some more with you.

Cheers!

-okkiedot