Lake Ercina in the Picos de Europa by Opmeer Reports

There are landscapes that make you feel small — and for which you are grateful. Where you suddenly realise just how insignificant your everyday worries are, and how vast, truly vast, the world around you is. The Picos de Europa is just such a'n landscape. And this lake, Lago Ercina, is its heart.
Two silhouettes stand on the shore. Small, almost invisible in the whole — and yet the centre of everything. For it is through them that the immensity of this scene finds its scale. The rolling green meadows stretching down to the water, the dark rock formations rising like sentinels on either side, the snow-capped peaks struggling through the clouds in the distance — it is all so vast, so overwhelming, that you only truly feel it when you see those two people standing there. Small and still, shoulder to shoulder, before a lake that mirrors the sky.
And what a sky. Dramatic, alive, full of movement — clouds chasing and piling up, casting patches of light across the landscape, whilst the blue in between is intense and deep as a promise. This is no summer postcard. This is nature in its wildest, most honest form.
This image brings air into the home. Space. The feeling that you are standing outside, that the wind is blowing towards you, that a new world awaits behind every mountain ridge.