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It was sunny clear day, much warmer.....but to Christmas it'll be snow fall again....and colder!
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This Boat is Logged in a pond related to fishery and awiting next rain to come , the river Bhrammaputra is just nearby , Still its destination not decided till rain comes for him, It's Like our rural life style, They remain awaiting till the growth is matured and Taken to the market for sell, Our Bangladesh is a land of River and Boat, Sometime the boats remain in rest till the next monsoon,
Life also need rest like this Boat, The Light on this fore ground is the significant future and the reflection at the back is the hope for our restless Socio economic Emancipation in BANGLADESH .I made this snap shot a Art wok with the help of Photo shop CS-5
I Captured this Boat form Mymensing during my Monthly photo walk with Frame BANGLADESH .
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The Bend is finally here. I really wanted to take my time with this image. And I hope I didn't disappoint anyone, but there were a lot of feelings and emotions in this image and I wanted to make sure I got it all out. I will get to my thoughts and feelings in a minute, but like Miles M. says, if you are not a fan of my commentary quit reading at this point.
The Trip
Jave I have been talking about another bootcamp trip since the last one, and Jave's been itching to come out to the southwest for a while now. So we figured hey, why don't we go hit up Horseshoe Bend and Antelope Canyon, and any other spots close to there. Either one of us had been to Horseshoe Bend or Antelope Canyon, so what the hell, lets go for it. Bootcamp Photography part 2 begins. Friday night Jave flies into Vegas. We sit and chat until about midnight, get a couple hours of sleep, and its off to AZ at 330 am. First stop, Zion National Park to meet up with the Zion killer John W. John has so many great images from Zion and Southern Utah that it makes me sick. Lucky bastard! We meet up with John and get skunked at Zion, but no biggie, that was a quick pit stop on the way to AZ. We head to AZ determined to catch some great light, although the skies were completely clear, and the forecast called for partly cloudy skies, our hopes for some great light were looking slim.
The Bend
We get to Page and meet up with Zia. Zia is the man you want to talk to for HUGE prints. We make our short hike to the Horseshoe Bend. Now, this is were all the emotions and everything else starts setting in. We are getting closer to the edge of the cliff, I'm guessing another 50 yards or so and Jave says "yo D, I'm scared of heights, what am I going to do?" I told him hold on, lets get to the edge first and see what's up. 10 to 15 feet from the edge is nothing, you can see the bottom of the canyon with no problems. 5 feet from the edge is like whoa.........scary. Less than 6 inches from the edge is SCARY beyond belief. I told Jave this is going to be tricky. He asks why..........I tell him to get the whole river in the frame, you MUST get inches away from the edge. I see the look in Jave's face like oh damn. It took me a good 15 minuets to convince Jave to come closer to the edge. I was scared myself, but we drove all this way to capture this amazing scene, it needed to be captured right and setting up close to the edge was the only way. The view is so amazing, its overwhelming to take it all in. The cliffs are super high and sketchy. I told him the easiest way to do this is, set all of our camera settings prior to setting up the tripod close to the edge.
set camera for auto bracketing - just in case, and for blending options
set ISO
get spirit level make sure horizon is straight as possible
set live view
keep my wireless remote in hand - this is a must at this location
set up graduated neutral density filter, I'm playing it safe with the hard edge 3 stop
take deep breaths before setting up close to the edge
now.........once I get everything set, I crawl closer to the edge, set up my tripod, set live view, and compose the image as best I can. I don't see all of the river in my live view..........damn it, I have to get even closer to the edge. I finally get all of the river in my live view screen, I'm ready to go. Wait........I have to place to grad accordingly. Ok, that's done. Now comes the wait. The clear skies slowly start to develop long streaking clouds coming from the east and heading west, we might be in luck. During this time I shot a small video clip to give everyone an idea of how we had to set up for our shot. I did some research, the drop from the rim to the canyon floor is 1000+ft. To kill time I lied down on the ground keeping my tripod within hands reach. There was no way I was going to be standing up looking over the edge waiting for the light to come. I just lay there just waiting patiently. The light is finally coming, we can tell that there is going to be some decent color this evening. Sure enough..............the light came. The sky was lighting up with all kinds of colors. It look like laser beams shooting across the sky. It was insane. Zia couldn't even believe the colors he was seeing. It was an unbelievable sight! The light came and it lasted 45 minuets after the sun passed the horizon. When we left, there was still color in the sky, and it was completely dark. I got the shots I wanted, once the light was gone and visibility was low, I was done. I wasn't sitting on the edge of that cliff any longer. It took a while for me to go to sleep that night. I was still fired up from the shoot, but I was in shock, and couldn't believe that I was that close to the edge to get that shot. My final thoughts on this image:
1. what are we doing?(us photographers) the things we do to get that shot.
2. I now understand why people do not get the whole river in the frame at this location.........they are scared to death, like I was, to set up their gear inches away from the rim of the canyon.
3. this IS by far........THE scariest place I've shot. Any images you see from here will not, prepare you for this place. It won't, you must witness the power of this place for yourself.
4. the most mentally challenging places I've shot.
5. I did it! ;-)
I wanted to give big thanks to Jean and Ellie for the support and info on this location.
I you haven't check out Jave's KILLER IMAGE from this spot, do so now!
Hope you guys enjoy this image, Happy Christmas to everyone, and thanks for the visit.
Was cleaning up the hard drive looking back at the year, this is one I wasn’t at all happy with it at the time, but it is kind of growing on me now, see what you think.
I was down here on the way back from work late evening one night in the summer, I had got a few of the three Graces from the front and wanted some light trails, unfortunately being late evening by this point there wasn’t much traffic, or good light, but looking back at this I thought it might be worth sharing, like most shots I did plan to come back later in the year to do it again, with the nights closing you would be able to get a shot earlier with much more dense light trails... it’s still on my list...
The Royal Liver Building is a Grade I listed building located in Liverpool, England. It is sited at the Pier Head and along with the neighbouring Cunard Building and Port of Liverpool Building is one of Liverpool's Three Graces, which line the city's waterfront. It is also part of Liverpool's UNESCO designated World Heritage Maritime Mercantile City.
Opened in 1911, the building is the purpose-built home of the Royal Liver Assurance group, which had been set up in the city in 1850 to provide locals with assistance related to losing a wage-earning relative. One of the first buildings in the world to be built using reinforced concrete, the Royal Liver Building stands at 90 m tall and was, until the construction of St John's Beacon in 1965, the tallest building in the city.
Today the Royal Liver Building is one of the most recognisable landmarks in the city of Liverpool and is home to two fabled Liver Birds that watch over the city and the sea.
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هالصور كان توقيتي لها جدًا سيء
كان المطر قوي وما يساعد الجو للتصوير
لكني أصرّيت أنزل وأصور
ونزلت , وجهزت الكام وحطيت الترايبود
ومسكت المظله فوق بنتي > بنتها الكام =$
أهم شي اني ماسكه المظله فوقها , وناسيه نفسي :P
وطبعًا أبدًا أبدًا ما تسبحت من المطططر ><
ان شالله تعجبكم النتايج
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"Build a little fence of trust around today; Fill the space with loving deeds, And therein stay.
Look not through the sheltering bars Upon tomorrow; God will help thee bear what comes of joy and sorrow."
~Mary F. Butts
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First of all, many thanks to everyone who shared their thoughts on my first light painting Love At First Light, which has this evening appeared on the Flickr Blog!
The SOOC version of this shot is below. It's becoming more and more common with the misty weather that my night shots around Rickmansworth (on the edge of London) take on this tequila/nicotine stain from the sodium street lighting (see en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sodium-vapor_lamp if you're interested - had a few messages on this front last time I mentioned it!).
Whilst it started off as alluring, I've found it can be a little excessive and overpowering, as shown below. This shot only really came to life after I applied to the lower half of the frame a wholesale desaturation and cooling filter in the white balance.
There's a semi-ironic theme to my last few weeks pictures where the SOOC version needs processing to make it look less processed! This was definitely one of these.
It's a 520 second exposure, taken with the tripod stood on the ice itself. Whilst I crouched, worrying.
Black does boost its impact!
Since it was taken the ice has thawed, and yet, even as I type these words, the mercury is hurtling plumb down into Hades, and the winter cometh once more.
Hope everyone is having a great week - just back after a few days off and catching up now.
After some requests, we will stop and rest a little on that bench...but not for too long: we’re so close to our destination!
Llegan las fiestas de fin de año y siempre renovamos un mismo deseo. Paz.
Mi deseo este año es que en el futuro nuestros hijos puedan desear otra cosa.
Holidays are coming and like every year we renew the same desire. Peace.
My wish this year is that in the future, our children can wish other thing.
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O dia vai começar para você, e o sol entrará pela sua janela para anunciar que
hoje é o dia do seu aniversário, e esta data representará mais um ano que a
vida sorriu para ti, e mais experiências dela mesma pôde aprender. Os anos
são como os crepúsculos que podemos apreciar à beira de uma praia, e ver
o sol partir para voltar no outro dia com a mesma intensidade de quando se
foi. Aproveite cada instante, e brinde pela vida e o novo ano que começa para
Você, querida Amiga. Viva a vida, e parabéns por mais um ano brilhando aqui.
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Real Waterdrops on Gerbera and refraction from another Gerbera.
taken with Tamron SP AF 90mm F/2.8 Di Macro lens .
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Noche de Paz
Noche de paz, noche de amor
Todo duerme en derredor
Entre los astros que esparcen su luz
Bella anuciando al niño Jesús
Brilla la estrella de paz
Brilla la estrella de paz
Noche de paz noche de amor
Oye humilde el fiel pastor
Coros celestes que anuncian salud
Gracias y glorias en gran plenitud
Por nuetro buen redentor(bis)
Noche de paz noche de amor
Ved que bello resplandor
Luce en el rostro del niño Jesús
En el pesebre del mundo la luz
Astro de eterno fulgor(bis)
FELIZ NAVIDAD / JOYEUX NOËL / MERRY CHRISTMAS
Albufera (Valencia).
He de mencionar que todas las fotos de Valencia están hechas entre www.flickr.com/photos/maraat/ y yo ^^
Guru Bimbabati Devi is one of the most acclaimed dancers of Manipur. She is the daughter of Guru Kalabati Devi who is a well known name in the world of Classical dance.
Like most Manipuri dances Ras-Lila is associated with Lord Krishna; here you can see Krishna ( Guru Bimbabati ) is playing with Radha & her consorts. I am fan of this dance form - its color, costume, rhythm and swift movement is mesmerizing.
Every year Konark Festival is held at an Open Air Theater where the famous Sun Temple makes the back drop. In front of the 13th century architectural marvel India's best Classical dancers enthrall a large gathering of Desi & International audience for three days. Incredible Experience !
Fotografía dedicada a Josu Perianes, que me enseñó a procesarla, los fallos del procesado son míos, muchas gracias Josu.
El Canal de Castilla constituye una de las obras de ingeniería civil más importante de las realizadas entre mediados del siglo XVIII y el primer tercio del XIX.
A su paso por la ciudad de Palencia, a la que se acerca mediante un ramalillo terminado en una dársena para facilitar las tareas de carga y descarga.
From the muddy boots and loaf of bread session, down at Crosby.
So I’ve previously uploaded a crop from this, really I love the colours caught and the shapes in the sand, but I just haven’t been happy with the confluence of directions you are lead through the scene, that and the lack of anything of significance to look at on the thirds, but with the sweep of beach and cloud around to the posh houses lit up down at Blundelsands I think it is worth sharing.
Anyway, see what you think. Have a great day!
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most of the snow has melted already.. almost as quickly as it came. i hope it's not the last of the snow this winter.
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The Best part about Gettysburg National Battlefield, from a photography point of view, is trying to capture a different feeling or mood around each monument, one that has not been caught before, at least by my shutter snaps. This monument is usually photographed from the front about 95% of the time. It is the North Carolina Monument.
I left the jet trail in for good fun, it was there when I captured the scene.
Read the rest of the story, and see the original 13...oops, 12 exposures as well here at the T-Wiz Blog
As always thanks for looking and thanks for the great comments!
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En un monasterio, una escultura de Cristo, en restauración. Aparece adoptando una posición que parece levantarse y decir...quién me busca?
In a monastery, a sculpture of Christ, in restoration. Appears to take a position that seems to stand up and say ... who I want?
Gratitude: Day 30/30
I can't think of a better way to wrap up the month of gratitude than to be grateful to the person who introduced me to photography, my step-dad. Both of my parents worked for Kodak for over 30 years. Cameras and film have always been a part of my life. I even spent two summers during college working in the Kodak Park manufacturing plant. My job was to mix the chemicals that coat the film. I worked in the dark. My step-dad bought me my first camera, he taught me about all the different kinds of film and he instilled the importance of capturing life's memories in snapshots. We had albums and albums of pictures (many embarrasing ones) that we still pour through every holiday.
My step-dad passed away from brain cancer 2 years ago. Every summer we spend a long weekend at Canandaigua Lake with my parents best friends. It's something we've done as a family for the past 10 years and after he died we have continued the tradition to honor his memory. These cameras belong to my step-dad's best friend, he was the CFO of Kodak. Here are some of my favorites from his massive collection:
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Désolé pour ceux qui n'aiment pas les bandes noires, je fait un test!
Sorry for those who dislike the black bars, I did a test!
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Vous avez surement déjà vu ces deux photos sur mon "stream", dans d'autres formats ou teintes.
Deux photos, qui m'ont pas mal permis de me faire la main sur "Lightroom" mais aussi de récupérer quelques hits sur ma galerie, j'avoue :p
Pour clôturer cette série un dernier traitement et un petit récap. de l'ensemble.
"Llightroom" (LR) me permet aujourd'hui de gérer mon travail de post production de A à Z. Si jamais vous débutiez dans la photo et/ou que vous n'aviez pas encore fait votre choix, je vous le recommande!
Merci encore à tous ceux qui m'ont donné leur avis sur ces différents traitements, malgré la répétition!
Très bonne soirée à vous :o)
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You've probably already seen these pictures on my "stream", in other sizes or colors.
Two pictures that allowed me to train on "Lightroom" but also get some hit on my gallery, I must admit: p
To close this series the last edition and a small recap. of the whole.
With "Llightroom" (LR) I can now manage my post production work from A to Z. If ever you are just starting in photography and / or that you have not yet made your choice,I recommend it!
Thank you again to everyone who gave me their views on these various treatments, despite the repetition!
Very good evening to you o:)
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This is a floating berth for tugboats on River Weser in Bremerhaven with an industrial sight on the other bank.
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Genova, Italy. There was a storm at sea. The raindrops fell thick, fast flowing, like regret. The sky was gray and the wind was strong, cold, sharp. The waves of screaming raged in my heart. They wanted to sweep everything away, destroying the reef, cancel that beach. They would like to delete everything gets in before them, memories, images, desires, hopes.
Theirs is a constant path, the movement was frantic and nervous. In their rush grow up, get up and then fell down into a thousand eddies, confused, indistinct as my thoughts. There is no light except a gray twilight that envelops everything. The current is violent, sly, invincible. Drag my soul away. The door at the bottom of an abyss. The abyss of a story that no longer belongs to me.
Reflex: Nikon D3100 - Lens: Nikkor 55-300mm f/4.5-5.6G ED VR - No filters used
Focal length: 55 mm - Diaphragm aperture: f/4.5 - Exposure time: 5 sec - ISO sensitivity: 100
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Not typically Fence Friday material bright and a wide DOF, but I found this shot, again looking off of one of Blackpool’s piers, back at the central pier, while you dont get the nice lights and sparkle of the night shots, so IMHO I think you should fill your lungs with the feel of the freshness of that wonderful cool salty air, while looking at the nice wide view.
I like the light and and colour, hope you do too. Thank you so much for viewing.
Hope you have a very happy fence Friday, HFF!
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Another one of the cell/mobile phone pictures from this weekend's hiking. Apologies for the loss of meaningful EXIF data - I'm importing these from my iPhone by email as it is refusing to sync, and for some reason this has stripped the file of the most interesting data.
This was from a really classy non-munro horseshoe just down from the Corran ferry. Whilst the terror-induced ice and snow of the day before (see www.flickr.com/photos/flatworldsedge/5198977853/) ruled out any proper camera kit, I'm reticent that I didn't take the proper stuff on this walk. That said, we were on the hills for 6-7 hours and the last descent was in the gloaming if not the dark. With a proper DSLR, it'd have added at least an hour and maybe tipped things into disaster.
In any event, the iPhone bore up quite well, even if the file doesn't live up to much magnification, especially in the upper reaches of the sky. It does look better pre-upload to Flickr; the first image I've ever had to say that about.
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Situada en un hermoso paraje alpino, a orillas del Lago de los Cuatro Cantones, Lucerna enamora por su belleza y el encanto medieval de su coqueto casco viejo que preside el célebre puente de madera de la Capilla.
Lucerna es ciudad de puentes, plazas e iglesias, aunque lo que más impresiona al descubrirla lleva los nombres de Uri, Schwyz, Unterwalden y Lucerna, que corresponden a los cantones lindantes con su hermoso lago de 114 kilómetros cuadrados. El lago más conocido de Suiza debe su fama a la leyenda y mito de Guillermo Tell, el 'Rütlischwur', con el juramento de fidelidad legendario realizado durante la fundación de la Confederación Helvética. Este hecho más el descubrimiento de la ruta 'romántica' de San Gotardo, dió a conocer el lago en todo el mundo y ahora son muchos los turistas que lo recorren en cinco vapores nostálgicos y más de una quincena de elegantes barcos de motor que parten de la vieja Lucerna. Una delicia de paseo a lo que no hay que renunciar.
En el centro del Kapelburcke, o puente de La Capilla, se halla la Wasserturm o torre del agua, uno de los símbolos de la ciudad.
Se trata de una torre octogonal de piedra de unos treinta metros de altura, de final del medievo, que tenía una finalidad defensiva, pero que ha sido también prisión y hasta sala de tortura. Se erigió alrededor del año 1.300.
LUCERNA - LUZERN - SUIZA - EUROPA
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Vertorama from 2 exposures for the foreground (1/3s f9 iso100 at 11mm) and the sky (1/6s f9 iso100 at 11mm)
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Another joint project by Andy and myself using different cameras and scopes 700 miles apart. This is my original RGB image reprocessed from the 10th and 12th September using the Canon 5D Mark II on the TMB 130 together with Andy's layer of hydrogen alpha that he shot from Long Island New York, using an FLI ML8300 Mono CCD on his TMB92SS at F4.4.
This image was selected as Picture of the Day on www.astromart.com 27th November 2010
Here is some information regarding the equipment we both used
Thanks for looking.
Clear Skies
Terry
Terry's Location: Fremont, Michigan
Date of Shoot: 10th and 12th September 2010
Camera: modified Canon 5D Mark II
4x15 min sub exposures at 400ISO with flat and dark frames.
6x5 min sub exposures at 100ISO with flat and dark frames.
14x30 second sub exposures at 200ISO with flat and dark frames.
Scope: TMB130SS F7 Refractor using WO/TMB 2.7" Field Flattener.
Auto-guided with Orion Auto Guider on Stellarvue 10x60
Mount: Mountain Instruments MI-250 (pier mounted)
Image Acquired using Nebulosity II, stacked with Deep Sky Stacker, processed and re-sized with Photoshop CS3.
Andy's Location: Long Island, New York
Date of shoot: 19th November 2010
Camera: FLI ML8300 Mono CCD
FLI CFW 2-7 Filter wheel
11x20 minute sub exposures with hydrogen alpha filter
Scope: TMB 92ss F5.5 Refractor
At.8 Reducer
CGE Mount
Star shoot Autoguider
Borg Mini 50 Guidescope
Astronomik 50mm Round filters
Aquisition and Stacking: CCD Stack
Post processing: Photoshop CS/2
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A unos 300 kilómetros de Viena, 400 de Berlín, 1.000 de París y 2.300 de Madrid se encuentra Praga, una ciudad que conserva un notable sabor artístico e histórico, y con una riqueza cultural incomparable.
La urbe tiene algo más de un millón de habitantes y es la capital de la república Checa. El núcleo principal de la ciudad de Praga está incluido en la lista del Patrimonio Mundial de la UNESCO desde 1992. Ocupa una superficie de 496 kilómetros cuadrados.
Los primeros vestigios datan del Paleolítico. El primer asentamiento estable se cree que fue el de la tribu celta, hacia el siglo VI A.C. Su población se denominaba Závist. Más tarde habitaron el lugar el pueblo germánico, y después los eslavos.
El río Moldava atraviesa Praga, dividiendo la ciudad de norte a sur. Es muy caudaloso, más aún que el río Elba, a pesar de que es afluente de este último.
El centro de Praga se caracteriza por sus sinuosas calles y edificios de todos los estilos arquitectónicos: rotondas románicas, iglesias góticas, palacios barrocos y renacentistas, modernismo, clasicismo, cubista y casas funcionales y edificios más modernos.
El puente de Carlos es el más antiguo de Praga. A ambos extremos del puente hay una torre (una que da al barrio de Malá Strana y otra que da a la Ciudad Vieja). Su longitud es de 515 metros y la anchura es de 10 metros.
Este puente por las nochess es un testigo silencioso de los tiempos medievales. Más por el día, su aspecto cambia por completo convirtiéndose en un lugar muy concurrido y sorprendente. Artistas y comerciantes tratan de ganarse a los muchos turistas que transitan por ahí. Es un ambiente fantástico y muy desenfadado, fascinante e interesante.
PRAGA - REPÚBLICA CHECA - EUROPA
Africa...
Nigeria.
Lavoro, lavoro e sempre lavoro.
Dal suo viso, si vede quanto sia disumano il suo lavoro.
In silenzio lui continua ad eseguiri i suoi trasporti.
Forse, non ci rendiamo conto, ma noi siamo diversi !!!..
Papa
Brousse le Château
Est pour Toi le plus Beau
Même en ce jour de brume
Si loin du bitume
Ton passé inoubliable
Et les grands repas, autour d’une table
Tous, enfants vous étiez
Epris de Liberté
Maintenant, tes souvenirs reviennent
Au temps des châtaignes
Dans ce si beau village
Toi qui est bien sage …
Domi
Papá
Broughton Castillo
Es el más hermoso para usted
Incluso en este día de niebla
Lejos de betún
Su pasado inolvidable
Y la gran comida alrededor de una mesa
Los niños que fueron
Amante de la libertad
Ahora, sus recuerdos vuelven
En el momento de castañas
En este hermoso pueblo
Tú que eres sabio ...
Domi
Dad
Broughton Castle
Is the most Beautiful for You
Even in this day of fog
So far from bitumen
Your past unforgettable
And the big meal around a table
All children you were
Freedom-loving
Now, your memories come back
At the time of chestnuts
In this beautiful village
You who are wise ...
Domi
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No entiendo nada de setas y nunca me fijo en ellas, pero en esta ocasión quedé impresionada al verlas, me parecieron tan bonitas ahí en medio de la hojarasca, que no pude resistirme a fotografiarlas. Destacaban por su color morado tan intenso brillando bajo los primeros rayos de sol que surgieron tras la lluvia; la diversidad de colores otoñales y el agradable olor a tierra y hojas mojadas inundaron la espesura del bosque, creándose una atmósfera única... realmente fue un momento mágico.
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I do not understand anything of mushrooms and I never concentrate on them, but in this occasion I remained impressed on having seen them, they seemed to me to be so nice there in the middle of the fallen leaves that I could not refuse to photograph them. They were standing out for his purple so intense color shining under the first beams of the Sun that arose after the rain, the diversity of autumnal colors and the agreeable smell of land and wet leaves they flooded the thickness of the forest, the only atmosphere being created ... really it was a magic moment.
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