Reced­ing Min­is­tik shoreline

This pho­to­graph is not brand new (it’s from ear­lier this win­ter), but I have been work­ing with it recently, and would like to share it here. It had been a while since I’d had the time to hike in to this lake in the Min­is­tik Game Bird Sanc­tu­ary, and it was a shock to see how far the water had receded since I’d last seen it. Not that I was ter­ri­bly sur­prised – every lake at Min­is­tik (and in most of Alberta) is show­ing the effect of the dry years we’ve had. What did sur­prise me was the colour of the mud­flats – the pinkish-reddish hue in the photo is an accu­rate depic­tion (as much as is pos­si­ble – but that’s another debate). The grey sky com­ple­mented the mud­flats and dried grass, giv­ing a very sub­tle, sub­dued pallette.