I love Mono Lake. It's so picturesque. Nice shot catching a mirror surface when looking in the distance it's definitely not a mirror when this was shot. I like the close-up features, when Mono Lake normally is a distance thing.
I'm hoping to leave comments on as many photo's in this challenge as possible... out of (currently) 1115 images, I gave 93 of them an 8. Your image was one of those 93, placing you well within the top 10% for this challenge.
Lots of water / sunset pics in this challenge, but this is one of my favourite ones.
In ancient times, it had been the site of evil and dark magic. It had a reputation for torture and death. An island of black stone, a tower in the center, home to beings and sorcerers from the deepest parts of nightmare.
Then came a day when the peoples of the mainland banded together to fight the evil there. They launched an attack en masse, sending countless ships filled with the bravest of knights and the strongest of warriors. For months the battles raged. Fire poured down on them, and lighting blew their ships apart. Poison gasses greeted those that tried landfall. Yet on they fought. More and more good people died, but ever more they defeated more and more of the evil there and took it down with them.
Finally, on one bright morning, the tower was finally breached, and the chased the sorcerer there from his place upon the pinnacle, where he had commanded his minions. The forced him to flee, and somehow he managed to get by most of the guard, but his magic was spent, and he was forced to enter the waters without any aid, yet he was still strong. He swam for his life, while they followed. He swam for his life as spear and arrow rained down around him. He swam for his life, and just as he reached the shallows and began to pull himself from the waves, a bolt of pure light, enchanted by the very gods, struck him in the back, and he was instantly turned to stone.
And there he remains to this very day, his skeletal face sticking out from the surface, and none dare go near. For there is an aura of blackness surrounding that spot, and the legends say that one day he'll break free from that prison, and return to terrorize the lands once more.
Out in the lake, like statues of Kings long forgotten, stood the remembrance stones, some with their arms spread wide, others pointing, as if to tell you something important, but so long past that the land itself did not remember it.
I like the reflections in the water and like the diagonal line that is created by the 3 main elements ... the burning in the top left and bottom right really enhance that feel ...
Wonderful location. I like how you've maintained the actual colours and not been tempted to amp them up in processing having said that, some deeper contrast may have been nice.
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