Photos and texts by Pascal Sauvé (Kitchener, Ontario)
http://timestop.zenfolio.com

To get this type of shot, I captured above and below the horizon, cropped out very near the reflective horizon and flipped the photo in post-production.

There were 2 distinct advantages to only capturing the reflections:

The first was light metering - you avoid overexposure caused by the slight residual fog and the sky. The second is you take advantage of the natural polarizing effect caused by the reflection of the water.

Because the lake is very shallow and organic debris floats at the top, they are not perfect refections and there are the occasional visual ondulations caused by the aquatic life coming up for air from time to time.

And here's another personal surprise - Looking at the reflective images - specifically at the blurring effects of some of the branches of some of the trees : Don't they look a bit like a mix of the brush strokes and colour palette between some of the works of Homer Watson and also the Group of Seven ?

Neat !