Today, I am spending the day browsing through my archive of digital photos that I have taken some time ago, preparing and editing them for final use. Here is a picture I took in the winter of 2012 at the Strbske Pleso. This panorama is stitched from 2 horizontal photos captured hand-held, without tripod.

It was a cold winter at that time and the location was frozen with ice; as you can see on this photo. However, the sun was shining bright, allowing a very good photography conditions, with the blue sky and brightly light sceneries of interest; one of those things a lot of photographers value the most.

The Strbske Pleso is a second largest glacial lake (tarn) on the Slovak side of High Tatras. This tarn belongs to the Tatras national park, TANAP. The mountains of High Tatras are the most popular natural attraction in Slovakia and they are visited by hundreds of thousands visitors each year; during all seasons.

On the left side, far away in the distance, can be seen the Predne Solisko mountain peak. This peak has an impressive altitude of 2 093 meters / 6866 feet above the sea-level and it is a quite popular tourist destination due to famous ski slope located on the front side of this mountain. In the centrer of the photo can be seen the ski jump from the World Ski Championships that took place in the High Tatra mountains during the winter of the year 1970.