Mystic Dawning Reflections

[Octane (Humayun)]

One of my favourite places in New Zealand, is beautiful Lake Matheson.

On favourable mornings, the reward for your early morning hiking aspirations is a crystal clear and calm lake offering pristine reflections of the alpine spectacle before your eyes.

Not the most conducive cloud cover formation for a landscape image (covering Mount Cook wholesale), but, after a failed attempt the morning prior, I was thankful for the fire in the sky this second morning's attempt.

This is an image from a previous spring campaign of the South Island.

Canon EOS-5D Mark II, Canon EF 24-105mm f/4L IS USM
13s f/16.0 at 50.0mm iso100

Click here for a larger version.

Comments, critique, etc., most welcome.

Thanks for looking.

H

[LightningNZ (Cam)]

Just incredible. I really need to take another trip around the SI.
-Cam

[leon]

H, I would call that the perfect image, absolutely stunning, I can see why you would like that place.

Leon

[DavidU (Dave)]

A perfect composition, fantastic

[bloodhound31]

Now you're talkin' H!! Print, hang.

Lovely!

Baz.

[Larryp (Laurie)]

Absolutely beautiful, H!

[SkyViking (Rolf)]

There is really not much I can say, this is a perfect image! Just incredible.
I don't think there exist any better images of Lake Matheson, and it's one of the top photo spots in NZ. I hope you get some serious recognition for this H, well done.

Do you still have many from that trip lying around? If so I can't wait to see them.

[AstroJason (Jason)]

As others have said, just incredible. It really is the perfect image!

[Octane (Humayun)]

Thanks, everyone for looking and commenting.

I also feel it is one of my better works. The waiting and patience paid off.

Rolf, many thanks, mate. As I gear up for Iceland (next month), I'm going through my backlog of images. From this particular trip, there is quite a lot of images awaiting processing. On that particular trip, I was trying to shoot a mixture of abstract/personal work as well as grandiose landscapes. I have quite a few personal images to get through. Just by looking at the thumbnails in Digital Photo Professional, I'm quite pleased to say that they all have a very similar look and feel. I felt like that I had found /me/ in my images -- my own style -- even if it was for just one trip. I think they would make a nice collection of their own and prints hanging side-by-side would work rather well.

H

[cybereye (Mario)]

Now that's very, very nice!

[dutch2 (Ingrid)]

Stunning image, the reflection is beautifully shot.
Well done.

[astronobob (Bob)]

The most beautiful image in da whole wide world H ;
Million Billion Trillion Guadzillion $$$$$ foto = All Yours & only yours,

[Regulus (Trevor)]

That is simply beautiful - Trevor

[rcheshire (Rowland)]

Simply beautiful H.

[gregbradley]

A super image H. Really nice.

Greg.

[tel.lekatsas (Tel)]

Simply stunning! What a beautiful place.

[cometcatcher (Kevin)]

Holy cow!

That needs to be enlarged door size and mounted on the wall.

[Rod771 (Rod)]

WOW!!!!

[danielsun]

Wow! Beautiful and stunning!!! Picture perfect.

[Octane (Humayun)]

Really appreciate the kind comments, people.

Many thanks.

H