Long Story

Gallery: LandscapePosted July 8, 2012401 views18 comments

I took this last Tuesday at Long Lake here in Colorado. A typical clear morning for this time of year. It does cloud up with the afternoon heating. And, we recently welcomed the start of our "monsoonal" flow from Mexico, to great relief. It has been way above average for heat, and way below average for moisture, so this will bring a welcome change for awhile, at least. The rain will help end the current fires and hopefully prevent any from starting in the near future.

Tony K's magic

Comments and critiques always welcome, and thanks for looking,

Morris

Comments

18 comments

Comment posted by Rick Turner on July 8, 2012 at 4:23 PM

Wish I were there. Nice pov and angle with foreground.

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Comment posted by Yiming Hu on July 8, 2012 at 5:33 PM

Morris, beautiful reflections and foreground flowers. I like the soft light.

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Comment posted by Richard Teller on July 8, 2012 at 6:38 PM

Very peaceful scene.Sweet light and reflection.

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Comment posted by Nick Bristol on July 8, 2012 at 7:40 PM

Some wonderful soft light here, Morris. It is a very peaceful and inviting scene with beautiful color and reflections. Very nice!
It has been so dry and hot here as well. Still waiting for rain....

Nick Bristol
Lone Rock, WI

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Comment posted by Tony Kuyper on July 8, 2012 at 8:20 PM

This is really sweet, Morris. I like the delicacy that pervades the scene.

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Comment posted by Nancy Lea Sandy on July 8, 2012 at 8:24 PM

Beautiful. Feels cool and refreshing. I like the way the lines narrow towards the bg, an excellent compositional element. Lovely image

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Comment posted by John Mumaw on July 8, 2012 at 9:41 PM

Delicate and cool. The flowers are an excellent way to lead the eye to the reflection and sun kissed mountain range.
A cloudless sky is definitely not a minus here. The distorted trees are a minor nit, but they're hardly noticeable really.
This is certainly a calendar and postcard worthy image, Morris.

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Comment posted by Morris McClung on July 8, 2012 at 10:18 PM

Thanks, everyone!

John, the middle ground trees are leaning naturally, but the distant trees do show some distortion from the 17mm. I need to try to bring those back to vertical. There was so much blowdown around the trails recently that had to be cut and moved that it looked a little like the Tunguska Event.

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Comment posted by Jack Garrett on July 8, 2012 at 11:33 PM

Nice soft pallet, great reflection, greta light...what more could you ask for?

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Comment posted by Mark Seaver on July 9, 2012 at 12:21 AM

Lovely gentle colors. My first reaction was to think increased the saturation on the peaks and in their reflections for more drama, but I'm will to bet that what I see here is much truer to the actual scene and I applaud you for maintaining that subtle beauty. The foreground flowers are really fine.

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Comment posted by Vlad Sadovsky on July 9, 2012 at 1:03 AM

Nice and delicate, I like the texture of these relatively small flowers among the grasses. Sky is a bit distracting with its' sharper color, but not a lot of it. Nice work.

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Comment posted by Vance Gese on July 9, 2012 at 1:36 AM

The gentle soft warm light on the mountains really sets the mood, Morris, then with the addition of the subtle mist on the lake, the wonderful reflection and the beautiful flowers ... a quiet, contemplative image. Love everything about it. Maybe a touch of perspective control for those trees but wouldn't change anything else.

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Comment posted by Kah Kit Yoong on July 9, 2012 at 3:15 AM

Very pretty, very sweet Morris. The glow is lovely.

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Comment posted by Brian Schrayer on July 9, 2012 at 8:10 PM

Beautiful light on those peaks complimented by a great foreground and crystal clear reflection. Looks like an enjoyable morning. Good news about the monsoon - keep it coming!!

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Comment posted by Lon Overacker on July 9, 2012 at 8:39 PM

Morris,

A beautiful mountain landscape and reflectionscape; nice job with the near/far composition doing well in combining the flowers with grand scene and refection. My suggestion in addition to popping the warm light and colors would be a touch more contrast as well throughout; actually mostly dropping the shadow values in the peaks.

Lon

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Comment posted by Paul Marcellini on July 9, 2012 at 8:52 PM

Wonderful light and color contrast. Too bad those clouds hadn't shown up yet!

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Comment posted by R.Bill Moser on July 10, 2012 at 2:11 PM

What a beautiful scene. Well composed and theprocessing looks spot on.

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Comment posted by Stan Rose on July 11, 2012 at 8:05 PM

A bit hazy, but that's par for the course! Pretty shot. I had a couple clouds this morn at Shrine, not much tho.

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