Alderson lake

cropped out sky; shot from higher up to include entire lake

I lack a sense of scale in the picture, hard to tell if the lake is couple hundred meters or many kilometers long. Also, light is very very harsh - not sure if you just had a limited time in which to shoot but over-exposed forest in the lower left is very distracting.

Here it is a bit lower on the mountain about 15 minutes later after the sun made the water much brigher. played around a bit in PS but lack the knowledge/talent to adjust the foreground darker.

 

this ledge is about 600 feet above the lake and the mountain peak is 1500-2000 feet above.

 

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