A frosty morning near Oxbow Bend in Grand Tetons National Park, unusually pink morning light (an effect I saw in the area on several mornings) adds a painterly quality (e.g., Bierstadt) to the lifting mists over the river here. I've been playing with prints of this image and the details really add here, you'll never find the pair of bird silhouettes at this resolution, I'd wager.
Also subtle, but still interesting, I love the nuances of cool color in the shaded, frosty foreground.
Seeing how to extract the interest here was key in making this image really come together. The sky itself was relatively dull, and the more famous takes on the Bend, at this point, were getting less flattering light, using a telephoto here allowed me to focus in on the magic.