Blending

I visited Magnuson Park's wetlands again. The ponds are new and offer reflections as well as attracting more water birds. The wetlands are also convenient, just a couple of blocks from my house.

On these cold, clear days, I worked at catching the light at sunrise and sunset. It was difficult to capture the range of light values so I used a blending technique to overlay a photo metered for sky on another metered for the ponds.
In the second photo, I added geese from another photo to enliven this sunset shot of trees.