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Published: 2004-04-06 16:11:07 +0000 UTC; Views: 743; Favourites: 15; Downloads: 222
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A view from the Sea to Sky Highway in BC... the colour of the ocean was amazing that day, and the stormy looking clouds parted for about 5 mins so I knew I had to take a shot.I was using my 50 mm lens, as there were some ugly posterboards off to the left, so the DOF could have been better if I had used my wide angle lens, but it just couldn't happen. I've had mixed reviews on the out of focus plants in the foreground... please give me your honest thoughts!
Nikon FG
50 mm
tripod
f 11
Velvia 50
1/4 sec
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Comments: 49
Wow, what a shot. It looks digital... it's awesome.. Beautiful work.
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surreal!
That's a wicked shot - it's peaceful just to look at - WISH I WAS THERE!!
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wow!!
this is like a painting or a jigsaw
very beautiful
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ive been thru that area...all of bc looks comptuer generated, its so pretty up there
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stuning....? I meant stunning. 'cause eye gu 2 kawledge.
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to be as honest as I can, I'd say the plants in front detract from the stuning scene. Way to catch that shot. It's beautiful.
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Gorgeous!
I saw this a few days ago, but it is only today that I found the time to come back to comment this and show my appreciaton for this superb landscape photo!
You could have "cheated" and stamped away the foreground in Photoshop, but honestly it doesn't bother me too much.
The nice natural framing of the pine trees make up for it and the cool blue/greenish tones are simply wonderful and support the coldness of the sea and mountains.
Great one, Kim!
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Personally I think it could have looked better without the plants in the forground, if they were sharper it would have been nice but not when they are blurry. Nonetheless its a beautiful photo! I love what the cloud-shadows do to the water.
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Hmm, maybe I can try to make a crop work... perhaps a psuedo-panoramic? Thanks for your honesty! This is somewhere I can get back to, although I'll have to hope for the same cool shadows on the water!
Thanks again!
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Im glad you appriciate the honesty, cause then I can say I honestly dont know what a "psuedo panoramic" is (?) 
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Hmmm, I just tried playing with it in PS, and a severe crop won't work... a psuedo-panoramic would crop the top and the bottom quite a bit to make it look like a panoramic shot... but i think this will have to be a re-shoot. Next time I'll get it!
thanks again!
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beautiful! 
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the colours are wonderful, and velvia simply rocks!
i am perhaps a little bothered about the blurry shrub up front, but it's hardly noticeable at a glance.
i suppose if all the trees were a bit more in focus it would have had a bit more impact to the image and would have created a nice 'natural' border.
it is still a beautiful sight and image nonetheless
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It's really awesome, and an instant fav. What fantastic colors!
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Nice shot, i like the two sets of blues/greens in this. The water is beautiful, makes me want to jump in it. Very pretty shot, my only crit would be to use a soft grad to bring out the foreground, i think you could have pulled out more green in those trees. Nice shot.
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Looks like a painting ...Beautiful. the blues are intense.
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Yeah, I'll be going next december or so, not this time around, unfortunatly.
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The colours are gorgeous indeed; and so is your composition, just perfectly balanced.
Too bad it's not at a larger size.
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its sooo sureal an just incredible
a definite fave
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oh man! it really looks alot like terragen..
yea.. beautiful scene
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By looking at the thumbnail, i thought that's terragened LOL, lovely!
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Well, this officially make you the person who takes up the largest chunk of my favorates selection. Very nice, as usual. I love the colours soooo much, and I hope to be going out to BC this winter.
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woo hoo! hahaha... I'm flattered to know that you like my stuff! Thanks for all the faves!
You better hurry out here if you want to catch winter (Fernie might still have some snow!) because the flowers are blooming in Vancouver!
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Amazing scenery 
Great job
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Thanks again for the comment, Soulman!
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Dreamy tranquility... evoking feel of warm safety... almost real!
Cheers..!
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hahahaha, almost real? It is a real place... not Terragen... although others have mentioned that it looks like a computer landscape as well.
Thanks for the comments!
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I said 'almost real' because it looked as falling in that blurred line between real and surreal. I must admit that I felt a degree of flatness in this particular work: In colour and in Depth. It makes one move to do something about it. That's why I send that note to you. Haahaha... In that it was screaming an urge to breath life into that senthetic tranquility. Well, at leat I've enjoyed the dance with you! thank you, anyway...
Take care...
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Ahhh, gotcha! Hmm, I wonder why it's flat looking.... perhaps I need to play with the contrast levels a bit to see if I can get more depth... thanks for the comment!
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I like it, there is enough foreground interest to lead you into the picture.
There is enough going on between the sky and the water to provide great colour for the shot.
The hills on the left do not do it for me, although the rest of them work well. Perhaps it was cloud rolling back over the hills, it just seems too flat - does that make sense ?
I think this is a great shot, overall, I really like the evergreens
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I love it!!! I'm a BC girl meself. That, right there, is exactly why I want to go back so much. Thanks for this!
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wow. amazing colors in the water. very well captured.
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Very nice shot..
Good composition work with 3 plans (I hope its correct sentence in english)
And the combination of the blue sky and green sea is wonderfull
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That's sooo kool how you captured the shadows! I love all the colors of this! Nice contrast and shot
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very nice shot, the colors are really supperb in this shot, specially the water is amazing, very well done. a bit bigger version would also be nice 
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I know, my computer is sick right now (hopefully getting a new-to-me one this weekend!) and so I'm stuck uploading pics that have already been resized. Sorry for the smallness!
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Beautiful place, beautiful photo capture! I don't think the softer focused trees in the foreground detract from it in the least. I love the composition, and I love that part of the world! (because usually when I am on that road, I am on my way to a ski trip at Whistler/Blackcomb!)
Some day I will have to see it in the summer...
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I've still never been to Whistler... I should really go now that I live so close! Thanks for the comment!
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Wow, you pulled over.. that's smart. I probably would have jumped out (without pulling over) *grin*
Anyway, nice!
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This was taken between Vancouver and Squamish in BC... saw the scene and pulled off on the side of the highway. *smile*
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