Annapurna Range Sunrise Pokhara

The view looks northward from a high vantage above the Pokhara valley, the Annapurna Range filling the upper half of the canvas in a blaze of amber and copper. First light catches the snow-covered summits and sets them glowing — deep orange along the ridgelines, ivory and gold where the peaks push highest into a dark teal sky. Below the mountains, a sea of cloud pools in the middle distance, its upper surface flushed pale pink and lavender by the same low sun. Closer foothills curve across the foreground in cool blue-grey shadow, a few warm ridges just catching the earliest rays, grounding the composition and giving the eye a sense of enormous, layered depth.