Sunset on the New Lagoon

[Douglas Bolt]

Canon 5D1, 24-105@24, f9, 1/60, ISO 250. Belize sunset from a pontoon boat on the New Lagoon near Lamani Lodge.

[Don Railton]

Hi Douglas

This is really nice. Almost like the sky is on fire. I especially like the way you have framed (partially) the image using the grasses in the FG and the colour in the sky & reflection...

DON

[Hilary Hann]

A beautiful landscape; love the colours and the framing and it looks like you've made the most of the scene.

[Jay Gould]

Doug, it all works for me. The upper light clouds framing the lower darker central clouds puts it over the top.

[Morkel Erasmus]

Intense light and a great simplistic exposure that really adds mood. I only wish those long blades of grass weren't slanting across the "clear view to the horizon" :e3

[Jay Gould]

Intense light and a great simplistic exposure that really adds mood. I only wish those long blades of grass weren't slanting across the "clear view to the horizon" :e3

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[Robert Amoruso]

Douglas,

Morkel caught the same thing as I was going to comment on. I like the grasses but not in front of the horizon break or the large cloud. Moving up and right would have changed that - perhaps for the better. Overall, the sunset and its reflection is good and IMO made better with the suggested compositional changed.

[Douglas Bolt]

Thanks for the suggestions. I'm not clear whether the problem is all the grasses that intersect the horizon, or would just removing the two that come up from the below do the trick. I kinda like the grass that stops in the middle of the distant cloud. The two intersecting leaves on the left don't bother me.

[Douglas Bolt]

Here's a repost with "shorter" grass. Which length is better. I'm leaning towards the longer ver.

[Andrew Aveley]

Great comments , crit and reposts also take it up a notch. Top one works for me !