I have had a few people ask how to get the blurred or foggy look in water. So I decided to return to a recent blog I made on my good friends web site http://reflectedpixel.com/wpblog/rpblog.php/
Early in the fall I awoke before dawn and went up near Sundance to shoot the beautiful fall colors. My objective was to find as much orange and red as I could find. I knew that the aspens had not yet started to change so yellows were not part of the mix. My objective for this day was mainly to shoot the backside of Timpanogos Mountain. Earlier in the year I had spotted a small waterfall and thought that if I brought my 70-200 lens with 1.7 teleconverter I may be able to get a semi close photo with the fall colors in it, but by this time of year the water had dried up, So I moved to my secondary plan of shooting the reds and oranges with Timpanogos as the backdrop. After a morning of shooting I was due home and only had a few moments left. I turned down a secondary road and came across this scene. This was the only part of the mountain that had yet to have widespread color change. I was again reminded of a valuable lesson. Always be prepared for what is in front of you. Like so many photo shoots that I have gone on in the past my favorite image was not the primary image I was after.

I like how the stream snakes its way through the scene
I like the deep earth tone colors you see under the water
I like how the water is blurred in steps, but not everywhere
I wish I could have found some reds in the leaves

I shot this photo using my Nikon D300 and 24-70mm lens. I used both a neutral density filter and a polarizing filter. The aperture was set to f22 while the iso was at 200. This was a 13 second exposure.
Let me know what you think.
~wr~