Chapel Pond Reflection

Kurt ..one hell of a beauty ...wonderful image ..well done ..

Balan Vinod

This is lovely, Curt. I love the immensity of this reflection. This looks like one big "pond."

Great colours. Nice the layer of fog.

gio

Great color Kurt and I love the mist on the water.

I love climbing those ice walls too - but great to see a autumn shot this good of the place. It's a liitle rule breaker, but symmetry works

This is gorgeous, the symmetry works extremely well here.

Beautiful golden color, and an overall gorgeous scene. Nice work Kurt.

Passed by Chapel Pond a couple of times on my way to the west branch of the Ausable, but the color was nothing like this, and not a ripple on the pond. Beautiful Kurt, one of the best shots I have seen from this area. By the way, if you are going to clime the ice, let me know and I will grab some shots of you : .
John

Kurt,

The colors look great and it is certainly a beautiful scene and well captured. I think shooting across a lake is one of the most difficult options for a landscape photographer because compositional opportunities are so limited. I believe Floris posted a shot with a similar comp a while back and I have two unposted shots in this style myself - both at lakes with sweet light like yours. And I feel the same way about them all... I guess I am just not a huge fan of this style of composition because it is static. These shots to me come across as being one dimensional. It's hard to get lost in the picture and your eye doesn't wander much. That being said, I think you handled the scene masterfully and your processing is spot on. Your reflection is also crystal clear. I think the pic would look cool as a vertical too if you just flipped it around. My only other suggestion would be to slightly darken or desaturate the trees on the right to balance them out with how the ones on the left look, which have a little more detail and less saturation. I hope this helps. Thanks so much for sharing. Michael

Very nice. The color and light here are fantastic. I do feel like the trees at the top of the cliff in the center are cut off leaving me wondering what a slightly wider view would look like.

Very enjoyable view. I read the comments with interest and noticed in particular Michael's opinion and critique. He's got a point. OTOH, this type of scene strikes me as calming and restful, which I appreciate.

I like the shoreline with the mist, and as others have said, the symmetry does work very well here.

exquisite - the slight mist rising adds tremendously. lovely.

Lovely light and what a reflection! Great work!

Wonderful capture, Kurt. The details and the reflections really sing here. For the sake of a better balance, I would tone the yellows on the right down ever so slightly to match it more to the yellow tones on the left - very minor of course.

I appreciate the comments Michael and I see your point. I like some variety in the types of shots I take and the ones I tend to appreciate. Certainly this type of scene has very limited depth, I'm basically shooting a wall, there's no more than 40-50 yards of depth from the far water's edge to the base of the cliff. I love to look at and shoot images with a great deal of near to far subject matter, the kind of depth that takes you on a journey deep into the landscape (even though it's ridiculously tough in the northeast). For me this type of image is more about patterns, texture and light, not necessarily depth. What transfixed me on this particular morning was the contrast and texture produced by the warm sidelight on the vegetation. I find there is much for the eye to enjoy, it's just more lateral than near to far. I also love the symmetry and strong diagonals.

John, I don't climb ice much these days, more of a backcountry skier.

Thanks so much for the comments. Since a couple of people have mentioned the lack of color balance of yellow from right to left I'll just note that the birches on the right are actually more advanced in their color change and getting more direct light. The yellows on the left actually still have a lot of green in them. It probably makes sense to look into correcting it.

Nice!!! Could pass for Colorado...Joe.

That is one beautiful scene and reflection, Kurt. Gorgeous lighting.

Just a splendid capture from comp to light to color!

Incredible reflection, light, and colors Kurt. Distilled down to the essentials with tremendous graphic appeal. Excellent work.

The colours and textures here seem to burst off the screen in an explosion of simulated movement. Very nice!

I personally like these symmetry shots when the conditions are such that you can pull off an image like this. Love that thin line of mist on the surface, it adds alot. Photography's not about rules, it's about vision. Great work Kurt!

Hi kurt I really enjoy this pristine scene, the colors , reflections, and the mist are alluring
Albert Darmo Canada

Sweet image, Kurt. The warm morning light on the trees along with the reflection are perfect for the comps balance and mood. Nicely done!

Ed

this is sublime!

That's gorgeous! beautiful light, color, and detail.

Chris