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-- Andrei Frolov (andrei@phys.ualberta.ca), January 24, 1999

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I love this photo--I had seen it previously on your web site. The colors are spectacular, and I like the fact that you can see the underwater logs so sharply in the foreground. The only things that could have been better in the photo (that I can think of) are (1) the mountain in the center background sort of blends in with the sky, so you can't see the ridgeline as crisply as I'd like (this is obviously the sky's fault, not yours), and (2) the cropping is perhaps a little too close on the right.

Nice work. I need to spend more time (with or without my camera) at places like Fryatt Lake.

-- Alan Sorensen (ats@mit.edu), January 24, 1999.

Very nice image! The water is so incredibly calm and crystal clear allowing for that nice reflection and the visible logs. The zig-zagging lines of the logs in the foreground lead my back to the reflection and the tree/mountain landscape, which have similar "lines," tying it all together. And the parts of the logs jutting out of the water add another element of interest to the foreground. Nicely composed!

-- Barbara Kelly (kellys@alaska.net), January 25, 1999.

Very nice! Did you get any shots with a polarizer? You would lose the reflection but it looks like there might be some interesting possibilities with the sunken logs. Very good image, thanks for sharing!

-- Derek Ferrington (didj@worldnet.att.net), January 26, 1999.

Yes, I too would experiment with a polarizer to get more details of the submersed logs in the foreground. The problem is that the refletion of the mountain may be lost. One way or another, this is a nice shot.

-- Shun Cheung (shun@worldnet.att.net), January 26, 1999.

No guys, I did not take the shot with polarizer. I was backpacking at the time, and barely had time to set up the tripod while I was taking a quick breather. Anyway, I would not want to lose reflections in the water.

The sky is a bit washed out, as it was wet and overcast. Still, I think it is better than cropping the sky out.

-- Andrei Frolov (andrei@phys.ualberta.ca), January 26, 1999.

Andrei,

Very nice picture. I have an ulterior motive for responding to this post 9 months after it first appeared. For some reason emails that I send to your IP are being bounced back to me with fatal adress errors. So I'm hoping this will get through to you.

The answere to the question you asked about my upload to your site are below.

I am using an older 68K Macintosh. I am converting my photo CD images to jpeg with Graphic Converter 3.4.1. I then upload them to your website using a preview version of icab. I am clueless as to why the images are not showing up.

Thanks, Billy Gorum

-- Billy Gorum (Herphoto@aol.com), October 31, 1999.