Hi Mike, Thanks for visiting and leaving your comment. As per the info about the pic, This is a pic of a historic fort in the Shigar valley, Baltistan, Pakistan. The fort has now been convereted into a luxury hotel. Most of the people visiting the area are here to go to the 2nd, highest mountain in the world K2. Also the 9th highest nanga parbat is nearby. Some additional information on the fort is available here http://www.akdn.org/publications/shigar_fort_residence.pdf As for the technical details on the pic, this is an HDR image from 3 images.