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INDIA HOLI FESTIVAL - VIAGGIO FOTOGRAFICO PROSSIMA PARTENZA MARZO 2021
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Moving my very first Flickr upload back to the beginning! Peyto Lake in Banff, Alberta - Canada. Taken in 2006 with my first dSLR the Olympus E300
Having decided to have another play around with the macro lens this time for a 2nd attempt, I was looking for something with vibrant colours and a bit of character. I didn't however expect it to be an elastic band ball!
An early morning capture looking down Mariacka street. Fortunately this was before the hoards of tourists turned up.
So there we were on our 2nd day in Iceland in February, about to embark on a trip to Þingvellir national park in hope of seeing the aurora borealis. The leader of the group indicated our chances seemed minimal as they hadn't been seen for the best part of 10 days. Despite the opinion there was still part of me that held out hope. We embarked from Reykjavik at about 19:45 on what felt like a journey into the darkness. The further behind Reykjavik was, so was the light pollution and the darkness embraced us.
Upon arriving in the national park, a little wooden shack with a cafe was all that was in sight, behind it a large vast meadow covered in snow. I wondered out into the snow and waited for what felt like a lifetime. Nearly 3 hours into sub-zero temperatures my 10 second captures started picking up a glow. I wandered a little further as crowds of tourists started to appear trying to photograph them with their flashes on -_-. Before I knew it I was stood knee deep in snow, in sub-zero temperatures risking hypothermia for the shot I was praying would happen.
Before I knew it the sky seemed to explode in green and pink tones and dance around in front of me and over my head. 10 minutes I will never repeat nor ever forget.
Taiga one of the adult Amur tigers casually relaxing less than 3 feet away from me. Just after I took the shot she turned and faced me dead on and stepped right towards me.....I may have fallen backwards at that point!
We’re small. Tiny, really; essentially imperceptible splashes of color on a canvas that stretches across a universe of maybes and potentials and threatens to never end - but, damn it, don’t you understand how beautiful you are? I know I can’t see this whole canvas (it’d be overwhelming if I could..) but even a peek is enough to send me spiraling from speechless wonder to misunderstood conceptions of insignificance.
(Do I even matter?)
And then I look at you. I see how magnificently your color contrasts with the canvas behind you and I wonder if, maybe, without us, monochromatic would weep.
#sweeterpoetry
To Be A Song; poem 124
"I can’t verbalize the internal meaning of pictures whatsoever. Some of my friends can at very mystical levels, but I prefer to say that, if I feel something strongly, I would make a photograph that would be the equivalent of what I saw and felt...” —Ansel Adams
An early morning capture under the walkway of the Cloth Hall in the main town square. Any other time of day and this would be swarming with people...
After realising she wasn't camouflaged Lena decided to relax up in her tree. There she decided to nap for what felt like hours...