This was my most challenging photo. I took three long exposure images, focusing each on a different tree trunk, then focus stacked in Photoshop. I took it into LR to tweak and finalized it in PS. Photos taken using a tripod in the water, next to my kayak, with my 180-600mm lens for a tight composition.
@joysfocus We saw one alligator -- I just saw its back, but a friend on the trip saw his head. I wasn't comfortable getting in the water at all! But I felt safe in the kayak.
@pdulis I don't think it was a national park -- definitely state parks in some cases and in others, I don't know what the designation was. Burton Lake, Lake Fausse Point -- those were two of the sites.
@jgpittenger Not sure exactly, but using my Manfrotto tripod, it was fully extended and water covered it up to about 6" below the ballhead. I was in the kayak, so not standing in the water (would have needed waders for that and the possibility of alligators made me too nervous to consider it!
