Lake Poaka Reflections on Flickr.
And here is the other photo I have chosen to decorate this blog. Lake Poaka (Lake Pig) is a small lake in the Mackenzie Basin in the South Island of New Zealand, a starkly beautiful part of the country. The lake is tree lined so I had to poke my camera through the foliage to take this shot. I'm really pleased with the outcome except that I should have cropped out the couple of sticks on the left. I guess my wife's scrapbooking skills have made me lazy. I have read some opinions on the internet about how true to life these sort of landscape photos should be. This is pretty much true but I have taken the saturation settings and nudged them up a notch or two. Nothing drastic, but I like the colours in the image and I want to emphasise them. I'd be interested if anyone else has any opinions on this.