A lone church in Bavaria

This is St. Coleman Church in Schwangau, Bavaria, southern Germany. I really wanted to get a perfect picture of this church with the snow covered Alps in the background, but when I arrived here it was raining. The clouds were so low I never would have known there were mountains in the distance; they were completely obscured. So, I checked into a local b&b and waited. For three days it rained, and then on the fourth day, the sky was completely clear. It was definitely worth waiting for. When I composed the shot, I made sure the highest spire on the church was precisely in line with the distant white peak. I took this with film in 1991 – with a Mamiya RZ 67 medium format camera – and a 250mm lens. This is which is equivalent to about a 125mm medium telephoto in the 35mm digital format. I used f/32 to make sure the entire landscape was sharp. In a picture like this, had the background been even slightly soft, the picture would have been a failure.