Awakening Nature

Clouds and indirect sunlight created an impressive sky last week.

All comments welcome. :-)

Beautiful image of great light, composition and dof, all of the best.

Absolutely gorgeous! You are fortunate to live somewhere so beautiful. Wonderful composition as well. My only suggestion is regarding the horizon; it is tilted ever-so-slightly to the right.

Great work!

Beautiful tones.

Wonderful work, Lutz ... beautiful image indeed !! Colors & lights are perfect for me ... Best regards.

@all: Thx for your encouraging comments, dear friends.

@Wade: Thank you, Wade. I have to agree, that these places are absolutely wonderful, especially in the early morning light. But unfortunately such places are getting more and more rare, because of what we call here the "industrial agriculture". 30 years ago it was much easier to find such places, but in the meantime nature is more and more threatened by civilisation. Very sad. :-(

Beautiful soft morning light and reflected clouds with nicely detailed foreground vegetation, there is a real sense of peace and tranqulity in this image. My only concern is the dark post / tree stump in water maybe draws too much attention, though I appreciate that you have to photograph what is there.

Great Shot!

Regards

Alf

I entirely agree to you, more and more such places are vanishing unfortunately or endangered / jeopardized, which is a real mess - where did you take this shot by the way? Really beautiful shot. BR / Volker

@Alf: I thought about the stomp and have made another submission without it - when i face the stompless version i miss something, while i here agree to you, that the stomp draws attention away from the river. It is probable a bit a matter of taste, whether you find this element disturbung or interesting...

@Volker: This is a small river, the Lune, in Lower Saxony, Northern Germany - near Bremerhaven. There is another sweet little river near Bremerhaven, the Geeste - but in both cases the right location is important for getting natural shots. In some sections they have made with the digger a better canal from these rivers - straight and boring. Here near Hollen the river shows its full beautiness with the curves and the natural vegetation. A real pleasure to be there, especially in the early morning. :-)

Thanks, Lutz - it is good to learn and actually see that not all natural parts of these small rivers, you've mentioned and of which you're showing us such amazing images, had been destroyed in the past - very often by oversized hydraulic engineering measures (chiefly between the sixties and the eighties). Fortunately, some parts of those rivers were left untouched... And, today, hydraulic engineering is more and more utilized to renaturalize some of those formerly canalized rivers (where it makes most sense, especially regarding prevention of flood waters)... BR / Volker