Moraine Morning Twilight

[Kyle Jones]

Here is a pre-dawn scene from Moraine Lake from the archives. This composition has more of a foreground that many of my others from there, although I wish I'd managed to avoid the large tree on the left. As always, any thoughts are welcome.

 

[Ben Egbert]

This is an awesome scene and I don't mind that tree, sometimes they are just too tall to fit.

 

[Timmeh]

Hey Kyle,

The predawn calm is a welcome mood at the moment, and you've captured it well. I don't mind the tall tree, but I would have considered moving into the nearer mountain that is cut off. Of course that probably would have messed up the balance you did find. The mountains have a pleasant glow. I'm not sure if it's because of the size of the jpeg, but the snow on the right two mountains looks like they've lost detail.

Tim

 

[Jameel Hyder]

Nice mood to that scene. It’s a juggle between the compositions and factoring those trees into them. I have similar ones from there.

 

[AlanLichty]

Beautiful scene and I love the shade of blue the water takes on up there. I don't mind the trees at all.

 

[JimFox]

Very cool Kyle. I like this one a lot. I hear you about the large tree, it would have been nice to be avoided. Of course then the reflection would change if you moved, perhaps not for the better.

 

[Ken Rennie]

Kyle I suspect that if that large tree wasn't there that we would be left with 1 tremendous shooting spot with all others a long way behind. However I have never visited so I, not for the first time, could be completely wrong. Ken

 

[Travis Rhoads]

I of course like this one...how can you not. I think that tree works on this one, it helps create a sense of depth, more so than if you had been in front of it. Now you feel like you are looking through to a location, experiencing it more for how it is. I dig it.

 

[Kyle Jones]

I of course like this one...how can you not. I think that tree works on this one, it helps create a sense of depth, more so than if you had been in front of it. Now you feel like you are looking through to a location, experiencing it more for how it is. I dig it.

I'm glad you spurred me on to look for more images from that morning. I do like how this one came out once I invested some time into it.

 

[Douglas Sherman]

That is a beautiful scene. Kyle. That tree doesn't bother me at all. I think sometimes we get caught up in all of the compositional rules and fail to appreciate the true scene. I believe that if you asked someone who wasn't encumbered with all of the rules we photographers have assimilated over the years they would absolutely love this image.

 

[Jim Dockery]

I love that spot and your take on it, esp. the reflection, but agree on the tree. A bit wider view would have nailed it (if you didn't have a wider lens then how bout a pano?).

 

[MonikaC]

I kind of like how the 2 trees frame the reflection.

 

[Dean]

Kyle.. the scene is pretty stunning. It is what it is some times you just can’t avoid an object and that dose not take away from the image . You handled it great , it allowed for all the other stuff in the scene to really come through.. if this was dancing with the stars I don’t think that they could deduct any points here.. don’t ask me why I thought of that analogy... I just did

 

[Terry Farrow]

Here is a pre-dawn scene from Moraine Lake from the archives. This composition has more of a foreground that many of my others from there, although I wish I'd managed to avoid the large tree on the left. As always, any thoughts are welcome.

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Beautiful Kyle with the reflection of the snow and mountain framed nicely by the trees.