Another image from the same outing to Greenlake

I took this image not long before the previous one was shot, as the sun was going down over Greenlake in Seattle. The original image was somewhat nondescript, but I had visualized the scene as a sort of ulta-contrasty abstract in blue, and this was the closest I could get to what I had in mind.

Despite the fact that I find this image only moderately interesting, I have a fondness for it because it is one of my "previsualization" successes, although I should say that I am sufficiently unfamiliar with Ansel Adam's Zone System that my use of that term would probably make most purists cringe. What I tend to previsualize is the post-processing; this doesn't necessarily influence how I expose the scene. Here, for example, I knew I would want to blow out many of the highlights purposefully, but I still did a fairly straight-ahead exposure to try to capture as much detail as possible for later use, even if I did end up discarding some of it anyhow.