Your thoughts on blue water

[trainboyH16-44]

Mikec6201

Here are two pictures of the same lake. First one is my mistake, waaaay to blue. Second pic it how it looks now....Mike

Whoops! That looks like a glacier-fed lake in spring! Water can be that blue, but I don't have a photo of it with a train...this is the closest I've got: http://www.railpictures.net/viewphoto.php?id=343654

[galaxy]

Unless we are talking Carribian blues of the ocean, any other water I have seen is relatively NOT blue.

The river near me is a muddy shade of brown, Ponds have more of a greenish tint to them, even the small one I have under a waterfall in my front yard. I gave up trying to totally eliminate the algae, just eliminate enough so the pump for the waterfall works. How the dirt gets in there, I'll never know, but that makes the bottom brownish too.

Lakes I have seen, on a bright sunny day driving past Lake Erie, it appeared blueish on the horizon far away, but up close, not so much. As mentioned probably a reflection of the sky on a clear sunny day.

From far away the Pacific ocean looks like  a blue haze descending from the higher country of the middle of Oahu to the lower North side, but up close, not so much blue.

I would stick with a brownish-greenish base to be under the liquid water as in some of hte fine photos here.

I don't have any real water on my layout, just a gullly with a underpass under the tracks. I used a greeenish-brownish base as gulllys tend to be muddy.

Just my thoughts and observations.

[GP-9_Man11786]

Thank you everybody for your thoughts, tips and suggestions.