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NiklasWalendy — Beauty of NZ's South Island by-nc-sa

Published: 2011-01-02 23:06:41 +0000 UTC; Views: 1007; Favourites: 15; Downloads: 139
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Description This is actually 2 pictures edited into one, you might see it as I rushed this to send this in before the end of Sunday(I failed). I always wanted to regularly upload pictures, so I decided to start with it this year. This upload is meant for last week(thus before the end of Sunday) and I will try to upload a Deviation on a weekly basis. Hope you enjoy this one. I realise I've increased saturation and contrast of this picture quote a lot, but this is how I perceived my environment when I was taking that very picture. It was colourful to an extend that it pretty much blew my mind. So I believe that the retouched version of this is much closer to the original sight than the untouched version of this picture. What else is there to be said? Due to the distortion of the lense I had to distort the pictures as well, so I could merge them. Uhh, well, just enjoy it. This lake is about a 2-3 hour walk from the Franz Josef Glacier.
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Comments: 11

sezmeralda [2011-01-16 22:43:01 +0000 UTC]

I think this is a great shot, and there are many mountain tarns in the South Island which look like mirrors on a still day - especially in winter I think I know just what you mean when you wrote of the colours of the landsape - it's something I really miss now that I live in the city. It's photos like this that keep me happy!

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NiklasWalendy In reply to sezmeralda [2011-01-17 01:19:07 +0000 UTC]

Thanks for the compliment. I feel you as well, wish I was still out there, every day and night... :/

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sezmeralda In reply to NiklasWalendy [2011-01-17 01:34:17 +0000 UTC]

I don't think I appreciated it enough when I had it every day and every night - even though I thought at the time that I did!

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NiklasWalendy In reply to sezmeralda [2011-01-17 01:40:00 +0000 UTC]

You only know what you had when you no longer have it.

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sezmeralda In reply to NiklasWalendy [2011-01-17 10:34:51 +0000 UTC]

I agree!

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ctothaizzay [2011-01-04 18:12:47 +0000 UTC]

It looks good but if you're trying to get a scenery shot you might want to try it from a different angle or even lower that transparency of the reflection from the water because it doesn't even look like water, it just looks like a giant mirror on the ground lol.

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NiklasWalendy In reply to ctothaizzay [2011-01-04 18:35:16 +0000 UTC]

I had actually aimed for the mirror effect, but apart from that I had rushed this really. I was on my best way to get on that hill in front of me(Not the snowy one, the green one on the left hand side in the background. I was really eager to get there, so I didn't spend much time at the lake. Thanks for your critique though.

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ctothaizzay In reply to NiklasWalendy [2011-01-05 22:54:38 +0000 UTC]

Ah, ohkay I see. Well I love the picture itself. You're lucky you can go to a spot like that so pretty I'd love to take a trip to a place looking like that. Anyway yeah I tried my best to critique lol.

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NiklasWalendy In reply to ctothaizzay [2011-01-05 23:46:46 +0000 UTC]

There's a ton of beautiful places in the US that you could probably easily travel to.

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Eastwood92 [2011-01-02 23:17:27 +0000 UTC]

Niklas, this is beautiful.

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NiklasWalendy In reply to Eastwood92 [2011-01-02 23:30:04 +0000 UTC]

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