Photography And Half-Thoughts By Mitchell Hegman

...because some of it is pretty and some of it is not.

Friday, April 12, 2013

Lake of the Returned Sword




I took this photograph in March of 2009 as I walked to dinner along the shores of Hoan Kiem Lake.  The city of Hanoi, Vietnam shutters and honks all around the lake, but a quiet calm manages to survive along the paths immediately surrounding the water.
The name of the lake, when translated to English, means “Lake of the Returned Sword.”   I did not have a tripod with me while we were at the lake.  To capture this image, I had to place my camera on a low stone retaining wall at the shore and hope for the best.    
--Mitchell Hegman

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