Who threw those diamonds into that lake?

            After a sorter day of hiking with lesse elevation gain (like 13miles and only 500meters) We finally arrived at Elizabeth Lake (Head) Campground - a wonderful place to spend a few days located in the Belly River drainage at around 1500m hight.

First of all we were looking forward for a quick evening swim in the cold glacial lake. The idea sounded great except for the fact the we walked around 100m into the lake and were only just knee-deep in water. Bathing in 10°C cold water is way easier if can just dive into it instead of first laying on your belly and later laying on your back (in order to be completely under water). We felt better (and colder) afterwards anyway.

So after the sun set and blue hour was gone I spent just over an hour in my Mammut sleeping bag until my alarm rang at around 00:30. So I grabbed my headlamp and scanned all 360° of forest aounrd our tent for eyes other than mine - I did not see an lukily :) After geting into my clothes I walked to the beach and was amazed by the sight. I may have never seen such dark skies and the reflection of stars on the surface oif the lake made me speachless! The water was exxtremely calm so that it looked like someone threw diamonds into the lake. 

Unfortunately the cloud cover became even worse in the next 30 minutes os I had to stick with that shot. Of course at sunrise (after another four hours of sleep) not a single cloud was visible...

The whole situation was brethtaking because of the beautiful scenery and also because of fear of Bears, Mountain Lions, Lynx and other predators that are active at night. But I slept well afterwards. This might have been our coldest night of the whole trip with just above freezing temperatures!

This is a combination of two exposures: one for the Stars (30sec, ISO 6400), and one for the forground (three minutes, ISO 3200) with the AF-S 20/1.8 wide open.

Taken on: August 15, 2017

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Camera: Nikon D800, f/1.8, 20mm, ISO 6400 (more info) (hide info)

Camera:	Nikon D800
Lens:	AF-S Nikkor 20mm f/1.8
Aperture:	f/1.8
Focal Length:	20mm
ISO:	6400
Color Space:	sRGB
Software:	Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 6.10.1 (Windows)
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