Beautiful exposure on the sunlit mountains and clouds brings so much detail to those areas but not without a price. In order to expose correctly in those brighter areas you have effectively under-exposed the darker ones. All detail has been lost in the foreground creating a very heavy and dark third at the bottom and although that does frame the mountains, with a nice foreground rocky ridge, it is just too black and adds nothing to your photograph. This is a common problem, especially up in the high contrast conditions of the mountains, but it can be corrected either with neutral density grad filters when you take your picture and/or by “dodging“ with a photo program when you get back to your computer. We used to do this all the time in the traditional photo lab. Personally i prefer to expose correctly for the shadow and filter the highlights. The problem arises of course because our cameras cannot read the whole dynamic light range that nature offers us and so we must choose correct highlights or correct shadows, or else adapt our technique with filtering and/or post processing or as some prefer, HDR. Well done though for this lovely atmosphere which you have seized almost perfectly.
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