Setting Water on Fire

[lavendertook]

I love the little glimpses of reflected blue sky at the bottom of this picture, like sapphires gleaming from the bottom of the pool (or Feanorian lamps, or Frodolijah blue eyes.) Do click on it to see it better. This is still the turtle pond right where the path we came up merges with the path that circles the lake.


There will be many more ducks on the lake in the spring, mostly mallards, but always that one white duck, and sometimes a few wood ducks, and other kinds too, and several clutches of fuzzy lil ducklings.


Normally, this pool is muddy, algae covered, and kind of icky, so you'd never have reflections like this here, but this Year of the Mushroom and Cranberry's Revenge has brought in so much fresh water that it's looking more crystalline than I've seen it in the past 14 years I've lived in this town. On the next of these posts, we'll start going around the lake proper.

Comments

[mererid]

Wow--the colors are incredible, as are the reflections. :D Thank you for sharing these.

[lavendertook]

Glad you're enjoying them! (-:

[djkittycat]

I keep looking for hobbits. :-D

[lavendertook]

You're in the right place then! (-:

[romeny.livejournal.com]

Is this the Columbia Lake area? If so, I've been there a few times but never in the fall.

[lavendertook.livejournal.com]

No, Greenbelt.

[belleferret.livejournal.com]

The colors are wonderful!

Such a lovely walk you are taking us on! Are we having a picnic lunch after we go around the lake? ;-)

[lavendertook.livejournal.com]

I'm glad you're enjoying it! Sure, we can bring some charcoal and use one of the grills they have around the lake.(-;

[aramintamd.livejournal.com]

I love these shots. Keep posting them!

[lavendertook.livejournal.com]

I'm glad you're enjoying them! OK! (-:

[shirebound]

Yay, ducks!

[lavendertook.livejournal.com]

Enough to harass a Nazgul with!

[mechtild.livejournal.com]

Egad, I didn't even think your image was a photograph, crusing down the f-list headers. I thought it was a painting! These are stunning, almost unreal scenes. If I didn't know better, I would have thought you'd manipped real ducks onto a painted image!

[lavendertook.livejournal.com]

Thank you! (-: One day I will get Photoshop and have manipping skills so you can wonder, but today is not that day.

If you walk past, and don't take time to notice the reflections in the water, you miss half the show. The reflection of the deep orange branch right behind the ducks gives an odd kind of visual effect, doesn't it? It looks like it's a bush growing out of the water and not a reflection. The branch it is reflecting is further out and I guess closer to the water.

[mechtild.livejournal.com]

Yes, it *does* look just like a real bush. But what made me do double takes were the patches of brilliant green in the water in the top photo. The big emerald green one in the right foreground looks postively painted in.

[lavendertook.livejournal.com]

Yeah, those grassy patches are bright, and I think the dark of the water surrounding them with the near complementary effect of the red-orange leaves makes them look even brighter. On preview or iphoto, I usually sharpen pics to make the definition crisper, and with a lot of these, I'm increasing the exposure a little bit to let in more light because it was late afternoon, and adding a smidge of saturation to make up for the hues that the exposure fades. But I'd say the green is pretty accurate because that leaf is close to the lens and there's light going through it,so its got some luminousity.

We still have about a third of the foliage still out, if we can only coax some sun out to shine on it, there's still pretties to see here.

[mechtild.livejournal.com]

Ah, it sounds just wonderful. *looks out at grey, rainy landscape*

[lavendertook.livejournal.com]

)-: *hugs*

[ex-lbilover.livejournal.com]

Oh gorgeous! I love the reflection of the leaves in the water!!

[lavendertook.livejournal.com]

I'm glad you're enjoying them! As I said above, if you walk past, and don't take time to notice the reflections in the water, you miss half the show.

[annwyn55.livejournal.com]

Like Mechtild, I thought it was a painting at first glance. What a lovely neighborhood! You are so lucky. :)

[lavendertook.livejournal.com]

Thank you! It is pretty. Though last night the police were looking for someone in the woods--there was a helicopter circling over strobing a search light through the woods--it was pretty cool looking though.

[melyanna-65.livejournal.com]

Oh my, those pictures are amazing, they look like paintings! I so love the colors of Autumn! And to watch ducks on the lake is one of the most relaxing things ever!

[lavendertook.livejournal.com]

Thank you! Yeah, compared to the Canada geese and their squawking, ducks are relaxing. (-: *hugs*

[frodosweetstuff.livejournal.com]

This looks so lovely - like a reddish Monet... :)))

[lavendertook.livejournal.com]

Thank you! Yeah, it is. This was during Monet's Red Period.

*hugs*