Wednesday, October 20, 2010

Serenity in Blue and Gold

After my last, rather long-winded post I'll try to keep it short and sweet for today.  So enough of the technical talk and back to the pretty pictures:)
While in Utah, we stayed just a mile or so from this peaceful little aspen-rimmed lake, named appropriately enough Aspen Mirror Lake, so I was able to get out there quite easily every morning before dawn and have the whole place to myself for a while, before even the fishermen showed up.
I will just mention that I needed no post-processing at all on this piece.. shot it on Velvia 100 and took it right from the scan, as-is.  Velvia is so naturally vibrant and saturated that you really don't need to do much if you get the exposure right... love it.

6 comments:

Ashrays said...

rather elegant i say!

Gaelyn said...

That's perfect just the way it is. I think we drove past Aspen Mirror Lake, maybe on the way to Cedar Breaks?

We live the North Rim tomorrow. boohoo

Carolyn Ford said...

That's a very pretty picture! Yellow floating on blue...gorgeous.

storybeader said...

that is beautiful! The petals almost look like lily pads! {:-D

Unknown said...

Gold and blue is always a winner Mark and Velvia was (is) always magic with this colors !

forgetmenot said...

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