Wizard Island

Wizard Island, originally uploaded by dmzajac2004.

On the way home from Glacier National Park we took a slight detour to stop here. The color is awesome! It really was this blue. This is SOOC( straight out of the Camera) except for a slight crop off the bottom and right side.

Why so blue? “Light gets absorbed color by color as it passes through clear water. First reds go, then orange, yellow and green. Last to be absorbed are the blues. Only the deepest blue gets scattered back to the surface where you see it as the color of the water. The water is of course no more blue than the sky is blue.”

“The beauty and intense blue of Crater Lake have awed people for generations. Five miles wide and ringed by cliffs almost 2,000 feet high, the lake rests in the shattered remnants of a volcano called Mount Mazama, which erupted and collapsed into itself 7,700 years ago. Later eruptions formed Wizard Island and other volcanic features, now hidden under the lake. Crater Lake is filled with rain and melted snow. At 1,943 feet deep, it is the deepest lake in the United States and one of the deepest in the world.”
~ National Park Service-U.S. Department of the Interior

Nikon D90
Nikkor 17-35mm f/2.8 AF-S