You Asked for Something Beautiful...Nature Provided It! by Mark Stevens
Via Flickr:
A view looking across Talkeetna Lakes at one of the many overlook points while walking the trails there. This image was a simple matter of capturing that reflection off the lake waters of the trees and forest from the other side. Composing the image was a matter of deciding how best to line up the shoreline, in my opinion. As the the skies were kind of blah with the noontime sunlight, I decided the best option was to balance the image and split it. I found a medium light point in the trees to have a good enough shutter speed for processing the image later in DxO PhotoLab 3. WIth that, I did some adjustments to contrast, brightness and saturation while playing around with ClearView and a few other tools.