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summertime.i've realized i miss you most in the summer. when we were together, we belonged to the cold; trees would lose their leaves, winter winds would blow, but the summer was ours. it was a time when we could leave essays and exams behind and start dreaming. a time for stargazing and raindancing and treeclimbing. for the wild. for us.

i feel so out of place. in the light of a bonfire or the wind of a highway, i find myself thinking: you would have loved this. and i get lost in memories of running through a subway station, reaching for lights across the dark ocean or swinging by a lake and dangling our feet in the stars.

this has always been a seas

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Submitted: August 2, 2012
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Make:Canon
Model:Canon EOS DIGITAL REBEL XS
Shutter Speed:1/256 second
Aperture:F/3.5
Focal Length:18 mm
ISO Speed:100
Date Taken:Jul 29, 2012, 7:13:11 PM
Software:Adobe Photoshop CS5 Macintosh
Sensor Size:22mm

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Voyageurby =jonathoncomfortreed

Photography / Animals, Plants & Nature / Waterscapes

Inspiration
The lake draws deep, the cliff reaches high and the sky lasts forever.
The world is big, so big. It's made for wandering. For dreaming and exploring.

There are places out there that are truly marvellous to discover. But it's up to you to find them.

Technique
I went camping with my family last weekend (during my break from camp, ha!); on our last night there my parents and I went canoeing to see the sunset. This was my way to capture the moment.

I brought my camera intending to create a panorama of the sunset and the cliffs, but it didn't work out. The trees blocked the sun pretty early and I'm still waiting to buy a graduated density filter for landscapes like that.
I read a tip somewhere to look behind you when you're trying to shoot a sunset – so I tried it. And then I remembered another tip to work with foreground with landscape pictures – so I tried that too.

I used my wide-angle lens with the smallest f-stop to create the sharp foreground and unfocused background, and tried to balance the edge of the cliff, the bit of forested land and the point of the gunwales – centring it so I could add text after. My favourite part about this photo is the colour transition in the water. I totally rocked the complimentary colour scene, neh?

Edited it with Photoshop and added the text too, hurrah!

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