Many of you comment on the fantastic lighting, or write about the dark and ominous bank on the right. You are seeing things that aren't there. The picture 'only' shows a uniformly lit (overcast sky, I guess) patch of water where two diffenently colored bodies of water mix (or rather, don't mix). You can actually see a line of flotsam/foam at the border.
This is not a reflection of a spectacular sunset, however much it might look like one at first. Of course this doesn't stop it from being a great photograph!
As for the missing detail in the black part on the right, if you make it lighter in an image editor, the surface ripples become quite visible. The detail is there, it is just hard to see.
shuttle boat in Ha Long Bay, Viet Nam
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Many of you comment on the fantastic lighting, or write about the dark and ominous bank on the right. You are seeing things that aren't there. The picture 'only' shows a uniformly lit (overcast sky, I guess) patch of water where two diffenently colored bodies of water mix (or rather, don't mix). You can actually see a line of flotsam/foam at the border.
This is not a reflection of a spectacular sunset, however much it might look like one at first. Of course this doesn't stop it from being a great photograph!
As for the missing detail in the black part on the right, if you make it lighter in an image editor, the surface ripples become quite visible. The detail is there, it is just hard to see.