brettdeacon

Absolutely fantastic photo! Very imaginative and you tell a great story with this image. Well done!

Hi David. Thanks for stopping by. This was a 2-second exposure at f9, with no filters and very little post-processing. Glacier National Park is famous for its blue-green tinted water. This hue is created by extremely fine glacial silt in the water. This is the actual color of the water here. This and the accessibility of this spot make Avalanche Creek one of the top photographic destinations in the park. Most photographs you're apt to see of this spot focus more closely on the water and rocks, and tend to accentuate the hue of the water even more than this image does.

I echo the above comments about this image. This may be one of, if not the best fall color photographs I have ever seen. The colors reflected in the lake are what really draws my eye. I can't get over the endless photographic opportunities in this scene. Congratulations on a truly amazing shot!

Congratulations on taking one of the most beautiful flower pohotographs I've ever seen. It is simple, elegant, and beautiful.

Wow, what a wonderful shot! The clouds, composition, and still reflection make this a truly outstanding and eye-catching image.

Incredible. Simply the best bird shot I have ever seen. I could stare at this all day long.

Sorry, here's a link to the wider crop. And these images were taken at the outlet of the Baptism River into Lake Superior in Tettegouche State Park in Minnesota.

Thanks everyone for your kind and thoughtful comments on this image! The crop is undeniably a bit tight, which is a direct result of having only 100mm and 50mm lenses to choose from at the time and no room to back up or maneuver on the opposite cliff. That cliff is probably 30 feet high, and the trees are probably close to 15 feet tall. That little pine tree in the upper left corner is the same size as me. And that "cloud" behind the trees at the top is actually a wave crashing over the opposite side of the cliff. I pushed Provia 100 a stop to pick up extra shutter speed, both to freeze the crashing waves and to reduce photographer shake (as opposed to camera shake) in the incredibly strong winds. During some gusts on the exposed cliff I was barely able to stand up.

 

I took half a dozen shots from here and this was definitely the best combination of composition and waves. Horizontal shots with the 100mm were far too tight, revealing only the frozen flora on top of the cliff. Horizontal and vertical shots with the 50mm were not tight enough in my estimation and included too much uninteresting space. I?ve attached a cropped 50mm vertical image to illustrate.

 

Thanks again to the photo.net community for looking and sharing your thoughts!

Wow, this is an incredible photograph! What an amazing subject and you have capured it perfectly. I'm partial to landscapes but I'd be proud to hang this in my living room.

 

Congratulations!

 

Brett

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Simple, elegant, and beautiful. Outstanding!

Thanks for your generous comments everyone! Carolyn mentioned almost being able to feel the cold of the water... I felt this myself seconds after taking this picture as one of those huge waves crashed over the exposed cliff I was standing on and drenched me. Amazingly, the water droplets froze almost instantly and I just brushed them off my jacket. The experience of being there and taking this image was truly a once-in-a-lifetime event!

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Thanks for your nice comments! I know what you mean about the wind in Wyoming. I live in Laramie and it is stunningly windy during the winter and spring, but the summers and falls are spectacular. For this image, I just happened to be in the right place at the right time. I'm afraid my exposure "tutorial" won't be very inspiring. I currently use my Minolta Maxxum 7 as a light meter and switch between spot and matrix metering depending on the situation. My recollection is that I used matrix metering (without compensation) for this image based on experience suggesting that it would work fine for a scene like this. I would have preferred to use a polarizer to bring out the clouds a bit more but I couldn't risk losing the cloud reflections in the river.

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Thanks Steve. Fortunately, I have a wooden camera and carbon fiber tripod so my hands don't get quite as cold. The biggest challenge with this picture was trying to navigate around my gear in three feet of fresh powder. Trying to walk backwards while wearing snowshoes is a guaranteed way to fall on one's backside!

Excellent shot Steve! I used to bike through those woods every day and you have done them justice here.

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Brett

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Interesting comment Gerald. FYI, this image appears almost exactly as it does on film. The sky was strikingly blue and the greens were lush.

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Thanks Jim. This was a straight shot with no digital manipulation other than a slight brightening of the shadow areas. I took several 6x17 film shots from this spot but this image has the best lighting. This lake has almost frozen over already so I'll have to wait another eight months to improve upon it.