Erik, sorry to create a mystery. This is a composite starting with ten frames of the river from a Pentax 645D. The geese are added from a shot with a Nikon D800E with a Sigma 150-600 mm S hand held. The reflections are derived from the original shot of the geese and morphed via PS 6. The canoes are added from images painted by Francis Anne Hopkins, she was a painter who accompanied her husband (an executive of the Hudson Bay Company) on his many trips along trading and trapping routes in Canada's wilderness in the 1800's. Hopkins is still highly valued in Canada for her extraordinarily accurate work. I incorporated the canoes, adding the reflections I created in PS6.
I was shocked when viewing this work for the first time, how well the main canoe seamed to belong in the scene, a lucky symbiosis.
Thank you Erik for your visit and your engagement with this post. You raised some interesting questions. I usually state when posting , if the image is a composite. Sorry for the confusion. The print size is 20" high x 16' (feet) long. BTW this is the Athabasca river starting at the Columbia Ice Fields in Brirish Colombia. The river in this comp., is steps from were I live in Fort Assiniboine Alberta, The hamlet takes it's name from the original Hudsons Bay Trading post. There's been a poulation boom, we're now 174 souls.
