"There are only two ways to live your life…one is as though nothing is a miracle, and the other is as though everything is a miracle." ~Albert Einstein, originally uploaded by dmzajac2004-.

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This was taken on the second morning of the Eastern Sierra Workshop I took. After shooting around North Lake for sometime we had a lovely picnic breakfast then spent a little more time shooting before moving onto the next location.

North Lake is in a valley or bowl surrounded by mountains and hills. Just a few minutes before we were ready to leave the sun reached high enough to light the tops of these Aspens that were across a meadow and lake lining the craggy rock wall of the mountain side. The oranges and bright yellow were just the colors I’d been hoping for.
I chose to quickly switch to my telephoto lens to zoom in on those sun lit tops.

Exposure – I used my B+W warming filter on this shot to help bring out the warm colors. This lens is a smaller lens diameter than my 17-35mm so in order to keep my equipment to minimum I used a step up ring to be able to use the same Warming filter on both lenses.

PP- Recovery, vibrance, clarity, levels, small crop off the left side, a little bit of USM, and resized.
Nikon D300s, Nikkor 70-300mmVR @ 200mm, f8, 1/160s, ISO 320, Aperture Priority, handheld