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Photography is the subtle science and the exact art of understanding light. Understanding it, shaping it and cajoling it to show your viewer a story that only you have envisioned. Landscape photographers paint with light and enjoy chasing it. We wake up at ungodly hours and hike with heavy loads under rain, sun and snow to make sure that we are at our chosen spot, sometimes hours before when we know the “right light” would grace the scene. And all this in pursuit of that one single image that will make the viewer say “wow!”.

This is not such an image. This spot was pretty easy to get to. I drove up to this lake from my motel which was all of 10 minutes away. But still.

This image was captured originally as a much larger vista. It was a 3-shot vertical panorama taken on the Canon500D with the Canon EF-S 18-55mm IS lens at 30mm, 1/10 secs, f/16, ISO 100. The final composition is a crop of the original pano.