Lake Marian Photo | TrekEarth

Photographer’s Note

Lake Marian, in New Zealand's Fiordland National Park, is one of the more spectacular places that can be reached in a day walk from the main road to Milford Sound. It is a small lake set at the head of a glacial valley, surrounded by ice-clad cliffs. The track to the lake is mainly through temperate rainforest, but just before the lake is reached, the magnificent alpine scenery suddenly appears. A plume of snow is blowing off the top of Mount Crosscut at the left.

Track notes say the return journey is 3 hours, but you can easily make a full day of it by exploring the lake shore, looking at plants, rocks and scenery, taking photos, and simply enjoying being there.

A polarising filter was used. The image was scanned from a slide.

cyrrhus, jeanguy, PJE, sabyasachi1212, paul_lombard has marked this note useful

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david (3972) 2006-05-07 23:58

beautiful landscape vincent. the polariser really brings out the blues and whites nicely. very good image and really sharp.

great shot. well done!

cyrrhus (2878) 2006-05-08 0:22

HI Vincent,
Impressive landscape. Really well captured. Can hardly believe you managed to get it out of a slide. Great !
Eric /.

samrat_roy1 (683) 2006-05-08 2:17

excellent shot. this is paradise. i love the clarity of the shot. the strong mountains gives an awesome touch to the picture. great job done...

jeanguy (684) 2006-05-08 3:17

Hi Vincent,
Wonderful place that you shot! TFS. JG.

Propofol (1786) 2006-05-08 22:36

Wow - what a magical place. I must return to New Zealand to see it under snow; it was beautiful enough in high summer when I was last there!

Well captured and thanks for sharing it

arnoud1976 (1191) 2006-05-21 16:29

it really is one of the most amazing regions on this planet. NICE shot!

tfs

leiju (1683) 2006-05-24 10:03

I especially enjoy the space created between the mountains right smack in the center of the image. It is a very airy picture eventhough it is one of heavy loads of earth gathered to form high mountains. A lovely composition and wonderfully deep colors!
Thanks for sharing!

dagag224 (137) 2006-05-25 23:57

Very nice shot vincent. sharp with great colors.
keep up the good work!

PJE (19459) 2006-07-20 0:11

Vincent I must say what an incredible view! The lake seems so small compared to these wonderful surrounding mountians. Very nicely presented!

sabyasachi1212 (19546) 2006-08-03 23:26

Hi Vincent,
There are lots of places like this in the depth of the Himalayas but they are not so easily accessible. Just a day's walk from the main road and you arrive at this Paradise!! WOW! Excellent composiotion with very good DOF. Nice contrasts, I guess the polariser was a big help under the conditions.
With Greetings from India
Sabyasachi

paul_lombard (373) 2007-03-11 10:03 [Comment]

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fserajian (4489) 2009-06-28 0:08

Hi Vincent,

What a beautiful view .. wonderfully composed.. I love the contrast have maintained even in this light, excellent shot .. wonderful image..

Regards,

Fara