Golden Hour Reflection at Herbert Lake
Landscape photography is at its most rewarding during the golden hours, the periods of soft, warm light that most photographers associate with the first and last hour of daylight. Because the sun sits low near the horizon, its rays pass through a greater slice of the atmosphere, producing gentler illumination, richer warm tones and stretched-out shadows.
This shot of Herbert Lake was captured roughly thirty minutes after dawn. The lake lies along the Icefields Parkway, just north of Lake Louise inside Banff National Park. It comes from the same outing as an earlier Herbert Lake image, but here the view looks toward the far end of the water, where beautiful light falls across the trees and the reflection was virtually flawless.
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