This is the Little Bear River in Cache Valley, Utah, which has at this point turned into a shallow marshland. Taken with a wide angle lens.
Processing: I exposed for the water and land, so I selected the sky at the horizon and darkened it. I added some contrast and enhanced the saturation. I then cleaned things up a bit with selective blurring at 1.1 pixels. Cropped and sharpened. Come paddle with me sometime!
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somehow I missed this shot while in the challenge, it is absolutely gorgeous! I am not a huge landscape fan often, but you have outdone yourself with this one. nice job david!
Nice place, good, clear picture, I love the light patches on the far mountains to the right and the hills to the left. My one little tiny nitpick is the stick in the water (about 2/5ths of the way down on the left side) - my eyes keep going to it, and I wish it weren't there.
simply stunning. what a wonderful place to be. love how the lines pull you in and lead you around. this is the type of image you can look at for a while and never get tired of being there. thanks for the trip!
Good sharpness from foreground to background which works well with this type of image. Nice leading line with the waterway. Zooming slightly to make the mountains more prominent on the horizon or a higher vantage point may provide more impact. The exposure seems bang on. 7
Beautiful colors here, and the clouds look great. The detail on the water's surface is well captured. Leadng lines of the photo really pull you off into the mountains in the distance.
Nice colours here, the different blues in the sky are reflected well in the water below. Maybe a tighter cropping from the bottom, a little too much water for my liking. 8
It's a nice shot, and I love the sky and reflections in the water, but it isn't very high on my WOW factor...which doesn't say very much ahaha. I do like it, so thank you!
A lovely and striking image with vibrant color. The blue reflection carries its charm even further. Of course, such images are more appreciated in print form because there is a limitation and many fine nuances are lost in the cyber space. This is a bright scene and possibly the best landscape in this challenge because it imparts a sense of serenity and peace. Bumping up.
This is a great landscape. I like almost everything about this, especially the long sightlines with noe smoke, haze, or humidity. Look forward to reading your notes.
great exposure and color. some of the foreground water could have been cropped out to better balance the image, but overall, this is a lovely landscape.
Good use of leading lines with the edges of the plants to point me towards the center of the photo. Then I see the mountain and the sky with the fluffy clouds. I also like the pattern of the water and how it reflects the sky and clouds. Overall, it looks like there is some CA or oversharpening. If it's CA, then it can't be helped. I notice it especially in the clouds in the upper left near the bright area and in the lower left corner of the water. Very nice landscape study! 7
This just simply just a beautiful landscape shot. The DOF, positioning and nature's elements come together to make a picture that is a pleasure to look at. Well done.
This is beautiful. I love the blue color of the water, and the reflections of the banks in the water. The sky is great -- nice pretty clouds, which can be hard to catch sometimes. I gave this one an 8
What can you say when you have such wondeful light and scenic to match? The clouds really pop out and the color is outstanding (must be polarized). The deep DOF is very good as well, but would have been really brought out had there been some kind of subject matter to focus on, such as, a boat in the water, or fowl floating along. Still, a wonderful photograph. 9
This is a very nice photo of a nice looking location, but there is too much empty space in my opinion. The bottom and the right of the shot don't really add anything. I would have taken a square crop from the top-left, as thats where it's all happening, with the clouds, mountains, and grass converging. That would have had much more impact I think. 6
I think this shot suffered from a lack of a decent focal point. The image seems a little washed out, the lighting isn't extremely strong, and there's just no real interest. Perhaps if you'd waited for some wildlife (birds, et al), or maybe tried to find an interesting combination of marsh islands to give the photograph some centering, it would have worked better. Also, high horizon lines tend not to be as strong as they are when lower, in my experience. Anyway, keep working on things, I hope you get a lot of helpful comments, and good luck in the future :)
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