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Serene and lovely!

Definitely fits the theme.

As the saying goes, "Go placidly amid the noise and haste and remember what peace there may be in silence."

I bet there wasn't a sound here...

I like the splash of color of the foliage along both shorelines, one more distant giving depth. Reflections add to the serenity. Not totally sure of the composition. Will think about that--wondering about some crops...???

Good eye!!

the fisch

This looks more like October.....too cold of a June for me.

I really like the mood this conveys and the pastel colors. Not so sure about the branches, reeds, whatever that are sticking out of the water in the LRC. I was going to suggest cropping them out but that would remove too much of the clouds reflection....cloning them out would be another suggestion. Nice image.

Beautiful setting and nice capture. Curious about the location, it looks cool for June.

Thanks everyone.

This is Oxbow Bend in Grand Teton. It is indeed the morning of June 3rd, 2008. It snowed and there was a hoar frost during the night and I nearly froze, sleeping in my car. It snowed during the day too.

Two other shots from that morning at Oxbow Bend:

1. Looking across the bend at a row of Pelicans: http://gallery.photo.net/photo/9009471-lg.jpg

2. Looking back east at Mt Leidy: http://www.iancoxleigh.com/galleries/Landscapes%20Mountain/photos/DSC_1780_Edit_Edit_Edit_Edit.jpg

Here is one showing the flurries of snow, June 3rd somewhere around 1-2 pm local (on Jenny Lake road): http://gallery.photo.net/photo/8058434-lg.jpg

I drove further south and down towards Jackson, the Snow only stayed at higher elevations: http://www.iancoxleigh.com/galleries/Landscapes%20Mountain/photos/DSC_1750_Edit_Edit.jpg

You could see the edge of the storms from down on Mormon row: http://gallery.photo.net/photo/9658313-lg.jpg

On the composition and the twigs:

I have had both the twigs and the vertical composition questioned when I have posted this elsewhere. I can only say that I feel the twigs are essential and I like the tall vertical composition. I think this all goes hand-in-hand.

I have several frames taken two feet to the left that omit the twigs. I am not enamoured of them and have not pursued working with those exposures. For me the twigs give an essential element of balance. There is a slight diagonal line created by the tallest pine on the left that leads my eye down to the twigs and with those twigs removed I don't think the vertical framing can be justified.

Plus, I really like the tall vertical and the large amount of open space that it allows. I feel there are a number of more dynamic crops that make for a more immediately engaging image (square, with the sky largely cropped, for example). However, this isn't an image about drama. It isn't an image that needs to immediately compel you to look. This is a calm, quiet and meditative image and I feel the large expansive composition allows that sort of emotional state to reveal itself naturally in the image.

I am aware that there a lot of people who just don't see this the way I do. A horizontal with less negative space would have been more expected and less controversial, but, it isn't what I saw.

I really do appreciate the critiques and it is always useful to keep the expectations of an audience in mind when creating art.

Thanks everyone, once again.

Looks great, Ian, twigs and all! The only crop i could live with is 50/50--which only requires a minor cut up top, but this is fine as is.