Looking Down!

Gallery: LandscapePosted August 16, 2011474 views9 comments

Made my first hike up to Blue Lakes in the San Juan Mountains of southern Colorado a couple weeks ago. I think I found heaven on earth! The place was incredible! This was taken on the (steep) trail above lower Blue Lake. I know there is a bit of wide angle distortion but I wanted to give the viewer a sense of how steep the slopes were and how high above the lake we were. The distortion, I think, adds to this feeling so I decided to leave it.

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Canon 5D MkII, 16-35mm @16mm, 1/13 sec. at f/22, ISO 800, polarizer, tripod, insane wildflowers.

Comments

9 comments

Comment posted by Tony Kuyper on August 16, 2011 at 9:38 PM

That is really nice, Phillip. Very interesting perspective and I like the emphasis on the foreground flowers.

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Comment posted by Kane Engelbert on August 16, 2011 at 10:40 PM

I love this comp Phil. Starting from the wildflowers, to the lake, to the rock glaicer, to the tundra and trees; beautiful layering of colors.

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Comment posted by Jim Sabiston on August 16, 2011 at 11:05 PM

Nice! The feeling of height and steepness comes across quite clearly. Fantastic foreground does not hurt!

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Comment posted by Michael J Greene, on August 17, 2011 at 12:35 AM

I am loving the colors of the lake and framing of the flowers works nicely too. (They look a little oversharpened on my monitor BTW). Very cool shot - I love the depth perception as well.

Michael

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Comment posted by Eva McDermott on August 17, 2011 at 6:55 PM

I like the sense of height and steepness Phillip. Not sure if a lens distortion correction would help straighten the trees in the center left but leave the sense of height and steepness in tack (minor). Fantastic color throughout.

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Comment posted by Phil Pogledich on August 18, 2011 at 2:13 PM

I really expected more comments on this. Anyway, for my tastes it is a wonderful scene. The flowers are superb and the rich blue of the lake is quite sublime. Very nice work.

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Comment posted by Svein-Frode on August 18, 2011 at 4:43 PM

Spectacular image! Superb composition that really give a sense of steepness and height. Congrats!

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Comment posted by Joseph Campisi on August 20, 2011 at 5:23 PM

This perspective reminds me a lot of a shot I took several years ago up in the North Cascades. Love the colors, especially that glacial blue, which looks like something out of the Canadian rockies! Well done Phillip!

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Comment posted by Morris McClung on August 22, 2011 at 9:27 PM

Yikes! Now I have vertigo.

Gorgeous color!

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