Moraine Lake

One of your best, stunning!

Thanks, Peter. I had forgotten about this one.

Impressive shot..Excellent Marcus..

Nothing to add or remove..

foreground/middle ground/background -----

ALL AAAAAWESOME

They changed them long ago, but this scene was on our money for years. Beautiful shot of a Canadian landmark. Nothing to add or subtract i agree. Do prefer your other one with the trees but this gives a different perspective also. Nice.... 7/6

Truly a wonderful image and the reflections are crystal. My only question: Is the water really that different in color than the sky? Wow!

Amazing shot!

The stillness of the water is remarkable! Amazing shot Steve.

Another one of your great mountainscapes Steve! The color of the water and the reflection are breathtaking. Congrats!

Another beautiful shot Steve! Excellent.

Very impresive work Steve!

I was missing your beautiful shots! What a fantastic place

Beautiful, as all your other ones. Pnina

Waited a long time for a new upload, Steve, and you gave us a winner!! Great blues here!! BTW ... thanks for the two 11's. :-) Sorry, no prize other than my undying gratitude. I guess that if I don't give people a new upload often enough, they go hunting through my old folders for other things to look at. Thanks!! :-) Warmest regards!

The colors on my monitor are dazzling, very crisp image.

Great photo Steve, congrats.

stunning and awesome!...

stunning and awesome

Beuatiful shoot.

Did you use some filters at this shoot?

They are greatly appreciated!

 

Jayme, the answer to your question is "yes", the color of the water and sky is (was) that different. Moraine Lake is a glacier fed lake. The lake water at this time of year is rich in very fine, suspended particles, usually referred to as "rock flour" or "glacial flour", which are produced by the erosion of nearby mountains by the freeze-thawing of the glaciers. By mid-late summer, glacier fed lakes, such as this one, become enriched for these particles. The color of the lake is not the result of a reflection of the blue sky, but rather from the reflection of cyan wavelengths of light (sunlight and skylight). Moraine Lake is probably the most intensely "colored" glacier fed lake that I have visited, although Peyto Lake is certainly close.

 

Bartek, I did not use a filter for this shot. However, I did use a very saturated color slide film (Kodak Elite Chrome Extra Color [EBX]).

Ok , i asked because i see that you got a great lighting ballance between up and down in this shoot.

I was VERY lucky. The shot, as I recall, was taken sometime between 9:30 and 10:00 a.m. In other words, not real early, but not mid-day either. The luck was that the sky was absolutely crystal clear on this day. Some clouds would have made it ideal. However, in the absence of clouds, the next best thing is a sky without any haze at all.

Good to see some more of your quality mountain scenes. Except for the clouds as you mentioned and "maybe" a little more detail in the upper left, this is about as close to perfection as I can see IMHO. Outstanding work as always, I can never understand some of these low raters?

Thanks, Steven.

I love the stark beauty of this one, Steve. It seems almost like an above-timberline kind of shot, in spite of the obvious fact that it is not.