Glacial meltwater sitting in a rock basin below the snowfields. The colour is rock flour — glaciers grind the bedrock to powder so fine it stays suspended and scatters light back as that specific turquoise. Shot from above so the lake reads as a shape dropped into the dark moraine rather than as a body of water with a shoreline.

Meltwater
Aoraki / Mount Cook National Park, New Zealand · September 2020
1D X Mark II, 35 millimetres, f 11, 1/250 of a second, ISO 100