Aerial - I

Octane (Humayun) · #1 18-10-2010, 09:54 PM

Gentle morning light radiates throughout the Mackenzie Basin.

In the distance is the beautiful turquoise Lake Tekapo. Lake Tekapo has a surface area of roughly 83 square kilometres and sits approximately 700 metres above sea level.

The lake is being fed by the pristine glacial Godley River, seen in the image proper, as a network of braided twists and knots. The water in the lake has flowed 30 kilometres south from the Mount Cook region in the Southern Alps.

Canon EOS 5D Mark II, Canon EF 24-105mm f/4L IS USM
1/100s f/10.0 at 105.0mm iso320

Click here for a slightly larger version.

Comments, critique, etc., most welcome.

H

trent_julie · #2 18-10-2010, 10:02 PM

Thats excellent!

DavidU (Dave) · #3 18-10-2010, 10:07 PM

More awesomeness ! Superb H.

jjjnettie (Jeanette) · #4 18-10-2010, 10:33 PM

Wow. Beautiful!

marki · #5 18-10-2010, 10:35 PM

Wow that is beutiful H!

ChrisM · #6 18-10-2010, 11:24 PM

H,
A clear photo with plenty of rich colours. Did you have an open window? Brings back memories of a 20-day walk a bit further south. No digital cameras in those days though....

Chris

Vanda (Ian) · #7 19-10-2010, 12:17 AM

Wonderful image - were you hanging out of the bottom of a plane?

rcheshire (Rowland) · #8 19-10-2010, 05:55 AM

Superb landscape. Lovely contrast and hues.

supernova1965 (Warren) · #9 19-10-2010, 07:00 AM

WOW you continue to amaze

multiweb (Marc) · #10 19-10-2010, 09:31 AM

Love the blues in that shot. Very nice.

troypiggo (Troy) · #11 19-10-2010, 06:32 PM

Good one. Most of us struggle to get decent landscapes with tripods at ground level, and here you are producing gems from inside a plane.

Octane (Humayun) · #12 19-10-2010, 06:51 PM

Troy,

Thank you, my friend.

Also, look who got his 3rd Daily Deviation in less than a day of posting it?

H

Quote:

Originally Posted by troypiggo

Good one. Most of us struggle to get decent landscapes with tripods at ground level, and here you are producing gems from inside a plane.

Miaplacidus (Brian) · #13 19-10-2010, 07:58 PM

Okay Humayun, I hope you've given up your day job, because anything that takes time away from your photography is just depriving the world of more brilliant images. Another beauty, of course. Congratulations.
(When are you going to give Tassie the old Humayun treatment??)
Cheers,
Brian.

troypiggo (Troy) · #14 19-10-2010, 09:05 PM

Just saw it! Congrats again mate!

Inmykombi (Geoff) · #15 20-10-2010, 10:33 PM

You must have been out on the wing for that one "H".

beautiful colours and clarity.

Well done mate.

Ric · #16 21-10-2010, 12:14 PM

Excellent shot H.

Love the colours and the patterns, it's really like a watercolour painting.

cheers

spearo (Frank) · #17 21-10-2010, 08:23 PM

nice one
great colors
but lake WHAT?!!?

frank

adman (Adam) · #18 22-10-2010, 04:44 PM

I love this. Perfect light and colour.

The only thing that jarred slightly was the crop at the top. Your eye is drawn from the little rivulets in the foreground to the mountain on the right, up and over to Lake Tekapo and the plains beyond - but then the final little bit of icing on the cake - the mountains in the far distance - are cut off just at their summits, denying you that last little morsel. Would be better either cropped just below - or if there is more image available - just above those peaks?

Adam

SkyViking (Rolf) · #19 22-10-2010, 07:32 PM

A very beautiful photo as usual H, and one of my favourite places in NZ. Is this taken through a window?

Phil Hart · #20 22-10-2010, 08:19 PM

well now that's certainly somewhere i'd like to go! mountains, snow, blue sky.. what's not to like!? great shot.