I've been up to the Canadian Rockies a number of times (including a few winter trips there), but I've had almost uniformly bad luck when it comes to weather and light. Every now and then, however, a get favorable conditions, such as when I made this photo. I waded into the stream to incorporate the rapids as a foreground element. I dropped my ISO and used a small aperture to lengthen my exposure time to creatively blur the rushing water. Canon 1DXII, Canon 11-24mm lens, ISO 50, f/16, 0.3 seconds.
....a perfect example of an Ian Plant wide angle composition.....amazing..
Funny thing is I don't really like this composition all that much. I took this several years ago and it never saw the light of day. I was digging through some old raw files yesterday when I stumbled across this, decided to give it a second look. I feel like it almost came together, but not quite - something feels a bit unbalanced about the composition, I'm not sure if I can put my finger on it. I think maybe the rapids needed to be bigger, the bright clouds on the right tend to lead the eye out of the composition, and I don't like the dark mass of trees on the left. I don't know, something about this just never felt right to me!.
Wonderful!
Thanks Alicia!