BoB_20 Lily Beaver Lake Stanley Park After Aug 14 2009 D300_DSC8010

BoB_20 Lily Beaver Lake Stanley Park After Aug 14 2009 D300_DSC8010, originally uploaded by VancouverDoug.

Water Lily - Beaver Lake - Stanley Park Vancouver

What I liked the most about taking this photo was that I was able to 'see' it after the considerable amount of post processing that I was setting myself up for. The original was taken in the middle of August on a warm humid day. By this time of year the water mites (tiny little black insects) were in full flourish and speckled everything with their presence. In a word - yuck.

However I was able to see past that and knew that given a few hours of patient retouching in Capture NX/2 the image above would emerge. A pond Lilly in a world without insects. :)