Reflections of Beauty

When the right light and right location come together the results are nothing short of spectacular. While shooting at Beauty Creek we ran into cloud formations that produced some of the most brilliant light display of our trip to Canadian Rockies. I have to give credit to our host Darwin and Samantha for showing us this location.

Here is a vertical composition from the same location: http://photographybyvarina.blogspot.com/2009/08/reflecting-on-jasper.html

Technical Details: To capture this photograph I used a 0.9 Hard Edge GND filter. Because I was shooting looking directly into the sun, even with a 0.9 ND filter I had to bracket my shots. These bracketed shots were combined using our iHDR workflow to bring out the colors and details in both the sky and reflection.

Comments
On Reflection: I am well aware that there are some area of reflected light that are brighter then then its source. I could have easily corrected that if I wanted to, but it was my choice to leave it as is.
On Mountains: In reality, the mountains were lighter then the one you see in this photograph. When processing the photograph, I liked the depth of light created by the dark mountains and bright beams of sunlight...so I choose to render the mountains a bit dark.
Aaron: Yep it is all about "Chasing the Light".
Michael: Good critique. I will most likely crop out that tree on the extreme right. It was a tree in a little island closer to the foreground then the mountains beyond it.
Eric:: Good point about bright reflection. I am certainly drawn to it...even if it is technically not perfect. Does pursuit of technical perfection lead to higher sales?

All C&C welcome.
Thanks.
-Jay