American Basin

so serene, so natural, so beautiful, so gentle.

I love this shot, how it is not in any way overdone, and yet does so much. there is great colour, great light, but not some extreme orange cliché sunset. the mountains are beautiful but rather than being forced on us, they are of in the distance, complementing rather than making the shot.

their is but one small remark I have, the river is cut of by the side of the frame, which is kind of awkward. it might have been better coming either completely from the side or, even better, from the bottom of the image. though it is of course easy to judge such things when I wasn't their when it was shot.