Delta Blues

I like this very much. Congrat

the color palette here is fascinating, Jeff; a gorgeous gorgeous abstract! bravo to your vision here; in my faves ;-} dp

A beautiful abstract -- the subtle variations in blues and in textures are really attractive.  This gives me the feeling of looking down and somewhat behind, which is a bit disorienting.  Yet if you flipped it the lines would not appear to be flowing from the textured area above, which I think is important.  I like the curves in the top left corner, and I suspect you used the wider end of your zoom (haven't checked the exif data).  Such a beautiful picture -- I'm gaining a sense of the excitement you must have had from this new vantage point and the concentrated effort that must have taken place to make the most of every second of the experience.

Fascinating blue tones, Jeff. The structure upper left looks a bit like a closed human eye, very interesting. I know this is impossible, but as a photographer, I wonder what this would look like as a long exposure.

Thanks folks. This was shot at 90 on my 35-90, using shutter priority at 1/750 or 1/500 second and ISO 400. It was a case of set, shoot and check the histogram occasionally, and hope that you could sort it out later.

So my jump to conclusions about a wide angle were wrong.  I really should have known this -- a wide angle wouldn't produce curvature this pronounced.  This is the natural flow of water around pieces of land that protrude above the water, and it's pretty close to how the eye would see it.

Steve, we were a few hundred feet up so my natural preference for long rather than wide prevailed. It probably helped in composition, keeping the corners under control. I wasn't experimenting up there, just trying to do what I know well.