Medicine Lake

This is another large format color negative from the recently processed batch of C-41.  This image was taken in late October during the Monochrome Guild Fall Photo Weekend.  This is Medicine Lake, in Jasper National Park.  It was taken with my Ebony 4x5 view camera and a Fujinon 180mm lens.  Medicine Lake is interesting in that it drains in the late summer and fall, leaving the exposed lake bed with just a small channel of water running down the middle.  The lake was created when the Maligne River was dammed by a rock slide.  During spring and summer when the mountain snow melt is taking place, the inflow of water is greater than the outflow and the lake fills up.  During some springs the water inflow is so great that the lake overflows the rocks at the north end.  Then, as the water flow diminishes during the year, the lake drains away leaving just the river channel in the bed of the lake.  It is a spectacular place to photograph in the fall.  This year it seemed as though the water level was perhaps a little lower than usual...