...so still and peaceful, not a breath of wind...

I took this photo(s) as the day was just dawning, but the funnything is I didn't take it for the scene's aesthetic potential butmerely to put to test a handful of techniques I wanted to try out --such as noise reduction (through averaging of multiple images shot atthe same exposure) and extension of dynamic range (through toneblending of bracketed images) as well as a couple of auxiliaryclean-up tricks I had to employ to eliminate (or rather reduce)unsightly fringing artifacts in the foliage against the sky -- withoutintending to publish it anywhere, but, surprisingly, the end resultturned out interesting enough for me to change my mind and post it, sohere it goes!

FYI, if you're curious what techniques I used, please refer to theTechnical Details section in the 'Details' tab.

Finally, for best experience / critique you may want to view itLarge.

Cool, turned out great. :)

Very nice work, appreciate you sharing your tips, a rare find on here. 

Very Surreal feel to this photo.  I would be personally interested to see the less-saturated version just to compare but, I think these popping colors work very well!