It was unusually smokey in town on Thurs. and Fri. of last week. I found out today that there is a forest fire in the Kamloops area of British Columbia. As unfortunate of an event as that is, it did make for a pretty cool sunset the other night at Patricia Lake. This was a pretty easy composition for me. My main point of interest was the light on the big cloud above the mountains, and the smoke in the air. I composed with the shore line just above the center of the image so that there wasn't too much dead space above the mountains, and used the reflection to show what else was in the sky. I also had on my polarizer, which is usually used to cut reflections, but in this case I used to get the most reflection I could, a 2 stop Neutral Density filter was used as well to balance out the exposure between the lake and the mountains and sky. Happy shooting!
