Where rivers are born.

Some crazy mood going on there and the blue ice on the right is crazy. Feel the left side of the frame isnt doing much though...maybe crop in to the left most rock in the water? Looks like a cold shot! Nice work :)

aF

I love it! I have always found it very hard to shoot at this location so I can really appreciate this one! Great work!

I like the icy blues and water motion Wieslaw. Great mood created by the clouds. The larger version definitely has more shadow detail than the smaller one.

Wow, I really like the mood and subtle light here, Wieslaw. The one piece of blue ice is particularly striking; it seems to have a glow all its own.

Ed

Outstanding, Wieslaw! The colors and tones certainly work. I like the triangular
shapes in some of the mountain peaks and the blocks of ice on the right side.
I believe that you chose the correct shutter speed for the water. You also have
some very good diagonal lines in the middle ground. The cloudy sky adds to the
beauty of the image, and the goldish-orange cloud, whether it is the result of a
sunset or sunrise, is a real plus.

As you present it, the image seems to only be about the sky. All of the colors forward of the peaks are presented in depressed tones which don't ask for attention. The one brighter block of ice begins to but it there is nothing to compliment it. Leaving the sky alone, in the attached example I brightened up the foreground, added some lightness and saturation. I also applied an S curve and pulled the high point down on the levels adjustment.

The result is an image with more visual balance. The eye isn't just drawn to the clouds and sky. Focus has been shifted forward to the foreground water. Plus the orange stone and blue ice now play off one another. There is also more interest in the mid ground on the left hand side. We see more textural, tonal, and color changes. It isn't the dark hole it was before.

See the following image for the PS control settings.

This is awesome! Love the moody stormy clouds and cold feel here. This definitely is about more than the sky for me, as is. I do agree with Guy and like what he suggests/demonstrates. But maybe not quite as big of an adjustment. The colors in the ice are killer!

Wow, that's beautiful, Wieslaw. I really like the color of the ice as well as the counterbalance of the warm tones in the sky. Beautiful work!!

Great mood and energy. Well composed. The colors are perfect.

Awesome looking scene! I especially like the large version showing more detail and just a better overall look at this beautiful scene.

Nick Bristol
Lone Rock, WI

Lots of interesting elements here. Maybe a bit too many, but overall it works together pretty well.

The processing looks pretty good to me--maybe a bit of dodging on the waves would help, other than that it looks good. I agree with TK's assessment of the comp--i like it, but i think there is too much pulling the eye to the right side, so the left half gets ignored (the ice on the rhs is much more interesting than the rocks on the left, and the river also leads right)

I love the landscape - the relationship between the ice, the river, and the sky. As someone who has a pretty good idea of what it would have been like to stand in your shoes and consider your composition, I find this photograph to be excellent. As I look at it longer, the shadows begin to open up, the rocks on the left start to hold interest, and the mountains draw me all the way to the back of the scene. I wouldn't change a thing.