Circular Polarizing Filter at Green Lake

After reading about what a circular polarizing filter does on our wedding photographer's website, and hearing about it from a friend, I decided to buy one.

I tried it out at the lake to see what it does and was pretty amazed with the results.

 

It's pretty amazing how it goes from the first photo, which is just boring and blue, with almost no clouds at all, to the third photo, where the lake almost looks tropical (but not as warm) with fairly defined clouds.

This filter is pretty fun, and I've already used it lots.