Photo of the Week 2015-06-29

The colour and patterns of dramatic sunsets up on "the Bruce" never fail to impress. The challenge for me as a photographer is to capture these scenes in a way that invites the viewer in, to pause and experience the scene as if they were there, immersed in it's glory.

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For the image above, I had been down at the shoreline photographing a view just to the left for several minutes, capturing a pink glow illuminating the underside of the cloud bank and rebounding down over the calm water as the scene had been subtly changing moment by moment. Wanting to capture all that I could, I turned to the west to see intriguing patterns created by the shoreline, treeline, clouds and reflections on the still water. I captured a few images with the 24-105mm lens on the 5DIII before hurrying to retrieve my 14mm ultra wide angle for a broader more sweeping view.

When I returned, a family of Canada Geese were swimming by on their way to find evening refuge. It added just enough to the scene to "make" this image.

DJE