"Sunrise at Vermillion Lakes"

you can see :))perfect done, regards

norbert

Hi Steve! Perfect reflection and fantastic lighting. Your whole Canadian Rockies folder makes me want to go to Banff in the worst way...great capture!

Great reflection and light Steve!

Excellent reflection photo! Nice work Steve!

Beautiful

too bad you didn't have a ladder. the foreground is distracting and perhaps if you would have been a bit higher up you could have cropped that out. otherwise very nice.

Thanks for the comments, everyone.

 

Kevin, whether one considers the grass in the foreground to be distracting or not is a matter of personal preference. In other words, this is an opinion, rather than absolute fact, as you have perhaps unintentionally suggested. I happen to like the grass in the foreground, but I appreciate the fact that others, such as yourself, might not. IMO, a scene such as this requires a foreground element. If the grass in the foreground was as bright as the trees in the middle part of the scene, then IMO, this would be a distraction. Fortunately, since the photo was taken at sunrise, this was not a problem.

it makes you want to weep. Thanks for capturing it and sharing it.

Honestly speaking, your comment made me think back on how I felt during the hour or so that I spent photographing Vermillion Lakes on this crystal clear morning in July. I believe that seeing its beauty did indeed bring tears of appreciative joy to my eyes. Thanks for helping me remember this feeling.

Beautiful Image..Outstanding reflection, colors and composition!!! Well Done.

Excellent, makes me want to be there!

I have no words. this is beautiful. great pic.

Great photograph. Beautiful!

The quality of the digital file is quite poor, however. Don't know how the scan turned out, but my guess is that you used too much compression when you saved the JPEG file. That's how it looks anyway, based on the sky in particular.

Jay Philip Williams Photographic Design

Jay (or anyone else who perceives this upload to be of poor quality), could you please elaborate on what aspect of this picture looks poor on your monitor? Also, are you referring to the large version of the upload, the medium version, or both? On my monitor, which I've tried to calibrate very carefully, the large version looks very good. It would appear from the ratings and comments that it also looks good on the monitors of other viewers as well.

 

Thank you very much for taking the time to comment!

I don't agree with Kevin. IMHO the whiff of foreground anchor the image to the real ground and make it subtly elegant and less boresome.

Jay, upon checking this photo upload on my home computer tonight, I noticed the JPEG artifacts that you were probably referring to. I created a new, less compressed JPEG file and this seems to have solved the problem. Thanks for pointing it out.

Looks good to me. I like having the grass present in the picture. It leads me to the reflection.

Great job with the composition; the dark grass is essential for the dimensional effect. Nice photograph! Regards.

"... of the scene, then IMO, this would be a distraction ..."

What is IMO Steve???

You are a great landscape photographer! Seasons Greetings to you Steve.

Thanks for the compliments, everyone.

 

Ricardo, "IMO" is the acronym for "In My Opinion".

 

Cheers,

Thanks for the explanation :-)

Really beautiful one. The reflection has deeper color than the real image. Perhaps too strong density filter?

I have mixed opinions on the grass in the foreground. On one hand I agree that one does need a foreground, and this is mostly seen on the right half of the picture. On the other hand the grass which comes too close to the reflection of the mountain, is somehow detracting. With a little bit of blue sky reflected between the grass and the left hand peak, I would have liked it more.

 

It should really have been beautiful to come out of the tent before sunrise, on such a day, prepare for the shot and then see it over and over at home...

Comments and ratings greatly appreciated!