Bob Legg
July 2026 - Chocorua Lake
About the Image(s)
“Chocorua Lake” named after the Mt Chocorua in the NH White Mountains. Beautiful composition leading from the white birch on the shore with just the right amount of clouds to give a reflection. Taken with my 28-300 mm at 28mm, F20,1/400 sec iso 400.
7 comments posted
It's a lovely area, which I've never heard of. I'm glad you took it on a high F-stop to get such good focus. The reflections are nice despite probably a bit if wind.
I would remove the bit of tree that intrudes into the upper left corner, it doesn't add anything to the image. In fact, since the tree takes up so much of the picture, I might crop off some of the left side. Or maybe play around with the angle from which you could take the image.
It's lovely; I miss birch trees ! Posted: 07/07/2026 08:03:05
I would remove the bit of tree that intrudes into the upper left corner, it doesn't add anything to the image. In fact, since the tree takes up so much of the picture, I might crop off some of the left side. Or maybe play around with the angle from which you could take the image.
It's lovely; I miss birch trees ! Posted: 07/07/2026 08:03:05
Hi Donna and Susan. I appreciate your thoughts. RE: the upper left corner. However, remove and chop off branches at the top or some of the main tree trunk? I had another suggestion and the person said to replace with a white cloud, but I thought that would lead the viewer eye out of the image. Another thought was ti just remove, but the leaves an empty area. Donna, you are 98% correct about that tree trunk not adding anything, However, it is recognizable as a tree park and it DOES prevent your eye from ogoing out that corner of the image. Sometimes there isn't a perfect solution. Posted: 07/09/2026 02:57:25
My thought was crop from the left side, so it would remove a bit of the long tree trunk, as well as removing the upper left in question.
Yet I do agree, it helped frame the image and kept my eye from wandering out. Posted: 07/09/2026 13:55:16
Yet I do agree, it helped frame the image and kept my eye from wandering out. Posted: 07/09/2026 13:55:16
Hey Bob!
I appreciate how the tree reaches across the lake towards the mountains. I can see why Donna would suggest taking out that upper corner, and cropping more off the left, but then you lose that "reaching", and the vastness of the mountain range. I appreciate all the little details from the birch bark to the leaves, to the clouds, to the ripples in the water, to the cloud shadow on top of the mountain. It's a very pleasing image to me. Thanks for sharing. :) Posted: 07/07/2026 23:13:47
I appreciate how the tree reaches across the lake towards the mountains. I can see why Donna would suggest taking out that upper corner, and cropping more off the left, but then you lose that "reaching", and the vastness of the mountain range. I appreciate all the little details from the birch bark to the leaves, to the clouds, to the ripples in the water, to the cloud shadow on top of the mountain. It's a very pleasing image to me. Thanks for sharing. :) Posted: 07/07/2026 23:13:47
I like the way the tree reaches out to the mountains. I would eliminate the trunk in the upper left, but I would not crop in. Posted: 07/12/2026 01:26:32
Thanks Doug. But resulting hole on the top left would draw you eye out to clouds or mountains, or do you have an alternative? Posted: 07/12/2026 20:06:46
My solution is to see what Generative Fill would do. I think clouds would be just fine. Posted: 07/13/2026 01:50:54