Opening the Dolomites Through Colorwalk

Opening the Dolomites Through Colorwalk

These panoramic photos are part of a collection I captured during six different trips to the Dolomites over the past few years. Spring, summer, and autumn are undoubtedly the most beautiful seasons here, when the landscape reveals two of its most striking colors — vibrant green and glowing yellow.

The mountains appearing in photos 1, 5, 6, and 7 are all part of the Odle (Odles) Group, which is also one of my favorite mountain ranges in the Dolomites. Most people only photograph the classic front view shown in photo 5, but because I’m so fascinated by these peaks, I also photographed them from both the left and right sides to capture their different personalities and perspectives.

Seceda is probably not actually visible in the frame. What you see here is a mountain range called the Odles Group, where each individual peak has its own name. The lowest peak in the illustration, marked as number 20, is Seceda.

Seceda itself is more of a viewpoint rather than the main subject of the landscape. Most tourists and landscape photographers use the name “Seceda” to describe this iconic side view of the Odles peaks seen from that viewpoint — often nicknamed the “knife-edge mountains” because of their dramatic sharp ridges.