Upon Reflection

Hi all i went out this morning about 4am to Crummock water and Buttermere near Cockermouth in the north lakes.

All images taken with a k20 sigma 10-20mm / 70-300mm lenses.




Crummock water




Buttermere




Buttermere




Buttermere

I really like the first image Martin. Excellent stuff.

Besides first all of them are great for me. I could lose my self into those pictures. What is behind that farhest mountain? I would really like to spend few days of my life finding that out. Calendar and poster material.
But I am not much of the flora fan. Dig to immortalize flowers und staff in sensor for practice reasons, but not to record for the future generetions.

Martin,

I agree they are all shots to be proud of. Fantastic reflections and colours

Terrific reflections and great sky in shot 2 especially - very nice series

simon

Gorgeous images, good exposure for screen use.
I find the perspective a little off-putting. The super wide image compressed into a single frame is quite odd - particularly number 3.
Is my fisheye lens less deceitful (making no bones about how it crammed so much scenery into the shot) or have I just got used to it?

Thanks for the kind words everyone.

Martin,

They are well deserved. Mind you having read Darkmunk's comments I must admit that the way number 3 has been taken makes me feel a little sick - not the beauty of the picture just the fisheye (?) effect. There was one on the weekly competition for Movement - the one of the train, that had the same effect! Any ideas why?

All very good, but the second landscape is exceptional.

PentaxBabe, I think it is because it wasn't taken with a fisheye that it confuses the senses a little.
The brain is good at figuring out how much should be in a given area and what sort of distortion to expect. When you have things with very recognisable perspective - like clouds, The brain expects things a certain way. The fisheye 'tells' the brain how it did it and so the brain can accept it more readily.
For me the fisheye is just that much more illustrative and fun.

But these shots are lovely all the same. I think it would be interesting to try stretching number 3 a little widthways to see if it's even better. Something for nothing? Maybe.

Thanks Darkmunk. The pictures are truely stunning though, I wish I had as good an eye as Martin

Superb landscapes Martin, the reflections are great.
Jim