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Das Parkleuchten im Grugapark ist ja bald schon wieder vorbei. Dieses Jahr war es etwas weniger. Aber es gab genug zum fotografieren.
Zu guter letzt noch die beleuchtete Allee. Und kurz vor Schluß kann man die auch ohne oder mit wenig Menschen fotografieren.
Objektiv war das Laowa 9mm
Dieses Wochenende geht das Parkleuchten zu Ende. Ein Highlight waren die Geister. Da war immer ne Menge los. Kurz vor Schluss konnte man da in Ruhe fotografieren.
Outdoorfotografie ist ja im Moment etwas schwierig. Da kommt eine Veranstaltung wie die Höhlenlichter gerade recht. Zusammen mit 30 anderen Fotografen ging es fast 2 Stunden durch die beleuchtete Dechenhöhle.
Alle guten Dinge sind 3.
Die zwei vorherigen Versuche sind alle im Regen untergegangen.
Aber gestern hat es geklappt.
To the victims of the Nov 13 Paris attack
After the November 13 Paris attack yesterday night I was doubtful about uploading a photo today, as planned - a happy circumstance for me, as you may well understand. Then I thought that a counterattack anyone can carry out is going ahead as best as she is able to. I looked at the image and its title, and I realized that a dedication to the victims of the attack would have not been entirely inappropriate... So here it is, my humble image and the original accompanying narrative.
Well, I have done it, at last. I have gone back to the meanders of the river Adda, a most inspiring location. It is just half an hour drive from home, but my life has got so busy - especially on Saturdays, in principle the best option for me - that it could be three light years as well... The weather forecast was not as favourable as it could have been - a clear sky would not be my favorite for an interesting sunrise session, but I have been longing for it for weeks, so I would have not been so easily deterred. I badly needed a sunrise session at that magic place. This is one of the latest shots in the session.
The sun was already climbing higher than the hills' ridges and the glory of the morning was fully unfolding. I was walking downstream in the dark shadows cast by the majestic poplars bordering the left (eastwards) bank of the river, beyond which lays a wetland. A little further downstream one could have seen a wall of glowing mist flowing across the river, where the row of trees ends and the wetland is fully exposed (see my Round of the four Elements and Tales fro the Earth). As soon as the first rays of the sun peer down from the ridges of the eastwards hills the wetland awakens and starts breathing out misty vapours all over the plain and the river.
The mist was really thick and glowing that morning. As I was approaching the end of the trees, I was feeling like a wayfarer who, after long wanderings through a somber place, at last finds herself regaining the world of light *.
I have obtained this picture by blending an exposure bracketing [-2.0/0/+2.0 EV] by luminosity masks in the Gimp.
* This expression, which is also the title of this upload, is closely derived from a verse of Dante's Inferno (xxxiv, 134) in the 1918 English translation by Courtney Langdon (see here). Dante and Virgilio are leaving Inferno, regaining the world of light :-)
Dante Alighieri, The Divine Comedy of Dante Alighieri. The Italian Text with a Translation in English Blank Verse and a Commentary by Courtney Langdon, vol. 1 (Inferno) (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1918). English version. 16/11/2015. oll.libertyfund.org/titles/2308#p397