Forest and Lake, Morning. Yosemite National Park, California. © Copyright G Dan Mitchell – all rights reserved.
A forest ascending a slope is reflected in the smooth waters of a mountain lake in morning light, Yosemite National Park, California.
As I passed by this mountain lake in the morning I noticed that there was a very shallow layer of fog or mist sitting on the surface of the very still water and moving slowly in the gentle morning breeze. I’m always a sucker for trees (and other things) reflected in mountain lakes, and in this case the blurred mirror image of the trees attracted me along with the way the trees receded as they marched up the slope on the far shoreline. While the sun was most certainly up by this time in the morning, it had not yet reached these trees along the shaded side of the lake below a tall ridge.
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Technical Data:
Canon EOS 5D Mark II
Canon EF 70-200mm f/4 L USM at 91mm
ISO 100, f/16, 1 second
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