McGinnis Lake

This is a meromictic lake:

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meromictic

 

Located in Petroglyphs provincial park, near Peterborough, Ontario.

 

In hindsight, I think this photo looks like HDR or overprocessed (often the same thing IMHO). I was thinking of deleting it but I just love the look of the water. I couldn't bring myself to do it! Strangely I think the photo looks better on my computer. I can't see as many of the artifacts and it looks clearer. Typically I think my photos look better on Flickr than on my computer. Oh well...

 

I spent a while on this one. I still haven't figured out how to blend sky with trees to my liking. I typically use many adjustment layers and I find the more I add the more I have to change the layer masks then I get confused over what I've changed and what I haven't and what layer is contributing to the "fake" look. I was able to tinker with the dynamic range and colour to make it look like how I remembered this lake.

 

If anyone knows a really good way of blending sky and trees, I'm all ears.

Done