A Nice Surprise

This is a shot I took last weekend. My buddy was turning his headlamp on and off while we were shooting and he inadvertently lit my foreground up. I'm really digging how things turned out. Being able to see beneath the water surface really adds some much needed dimension to a photo that would have only been so so without the light.

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beauty, with or without the foreground. Where were you guys?

windpig wrote in post #16361203
beauty, with or without the foreground. Where were you guys?

Thanks, we were camping at the Snow Lakes, on our way to the Enchantments.

Great shot. When I first saw the rock in the water (lower right) it looked like a human face.

great looking shot

Wall hanger.

my daughters dad wrote in post #16368458
Wall hanger.

My oath it is. Lovely shot.

Washington is beautiful and you did great.
Lovely. Love your composition only wish is for seeing the head light in front of foreground object so that the shadow would have not been casted in foreground but then this is a beautiful image any way you show it.
Some of the most beautiful night images are formed when beauty of nature is mixed with smartness of photographer to paint the foreground with a dim light or flash or at times just accidentally utilizing ambient light. If interested, look at work of one of the Masters of night, a very pleasant man in person that I have had opportunity of meeting, Eric Curry. Would be very inspiring to go through his web page and just as a sample, see how he turns an ordinary scene into a masterpiece:

L I N K

I always had the plan to make beauty of Milky way twice by utilizing its reflection from say a body of water as you tried here but seems Milky way refrain to show herself anywhere but in the purest sky. I Must get help of photoshop next time.

Wonderful job and you must have had a lot of fun.
Keep up the excellent job.

Thanks for the comments guys.

Samsen, I will check out Mr. Curry's work tonight.