Holy Moly! I love this photo but I was only hoping for a Top 10, didn't expect it to place this high. This is my first D-SLR and I've only had it a month and a half!
Thanks for the ribbon and the comments! And thanks for the fun topic, Langdon!
Nice exposure on the snow capped mountains, but the foreground looks like the exposure was adjusted alot, which created a very flat, detailless area. I wonder if you had exposed more for the foreground, then worked on the mountain if it would have worked better. Even a nd filter for just the mountain would have equalized the light better. Anyway, images such as this are really hard to get the right balance of light.