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Dance of Light I
During the middle of the day, observing the light/shadow pattern created by passing clouds can be fun and exciting. Sometimes the landscape provides a pristine canvas to be painted, sometimes the light/shadow pattern overlays the patterns created by the rolling hills or the textures of the rocky surfaces.
Coming back from a five day trip in the Silverton/Ridgway/Telluride area, this is one of those places that I really want to go back, like, immediately, after scanning through all the images. But then I am afraid that I'd again bring back images that can't even show one percent of the sheer beauty of this paradise.
We spent a day shooting all the wildflowers exploding in the lower basin, and another day camping at the outlet of Ice Lake in the upper basin. This is one of the few lakes I've seen that have the dreamy turquoise color (Moraine Lake, Peyto Lake in Banff NP and Grinnell Lake in Glacier NP among them). The turquoise color is a result of the backscattering of light from the calcium carbonate suspended in the water and the reflective properties of the almost-white colored lakebed.
If you look carefully (View Large On Black or with B l a c k M a g i c) there's a beautiful tent pitched a few feet from the shore in the center, hopefully this provides some sense of scale of this place.
Canon 5D Mark II + EF 17-40mm f/4L. 36mm 1/80sec at f/16, ISO400, hand-held.
Dance of Light I
During the middle of the day, observing the light/shadow pattern created by passing clouds can be fun and exciting. Sometimes the landscape provides a pristine canvas to be painted, sometimes the light/shadow pattern overlays the patterns created by the rolling hills or the textures of the rocky surfaces.
Coming back from a five day trip in the Silverton/Ridgway/Telluride area, this is one of those places that I really want to go back, like, immediately, after scanning through all the images. But then I am afraid that I'd again bring back images that can't even show one percent of the sheer beauty of this paradise.
We spent a day shooting all the wildflowers exploding in the lower basin, and another day camping at the outlet of Ice Lake in the upper basin. This is one of the few lakes I've seen that have the dreamy turquoise color (Moraine Lake, Peyto Lake in Banff NP and Grinnell Lake in Glacier NP among them). The turquoise color is a result of the backscattering of light from the calcium carbonate suspended in the water and the reflective properties of the almost-white colored lakebed.
If you look carefully (View Large On Black or with B l a c k M a g i c) there's a beautiful tent pitched a few feet from the shore in the center, hopefully this provides some sense of scale of this place.
Canon 5D Mark II + EF 17-40mm f/4L. 36mm 1/80sec at f/16, ISO400, hand-held.