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Todos los años, durante el mes de Julio, se celebra en Igualada el "European Balloon Festival", una especie de homenaje a una ciudad de curiosa y sorprendente tradición aerófila.
Como ya había realizado alguna sesión fotográfica en el lugar desde el que despegan, quise variar el punto de vista y fotografiarlos desde las alturas, en la Tossa de Montbui.
Pero el día amaneció con una densa neblina veraniega, que amenazaba con imposibilitar cualquier intento de conseguir buenas tomas.
Poniendo en práctica aquella máxima de "cuando no puedas vencerle, únete a él", me propuse convertir la niebla y el intenso color dorado del amanecer en aliado en vez de enemigo y esperar el despegue de los globos pensando en cómo componer cuando llegase el momento.
Y el perfil de la montaña del Puig Aguilera como horizonte, la ciudad de Igualada despertando por debajo y el perfil siempre atractivo de la hilera imaginaria de aerostáticos ascendiendo hacia la luz, me ayudaron cuanto pudieron.
Música recomendada: "La niebla (prosa y canción)". Murga Agarrate Catalina.
Cuando la luz del sol naciente lo pinta todo de amarillo... los soñadores románticos sentimos en azul.
Con el sol a la izquierda y Montserrat al fondo, esa espesa capa de niebla de verano fue todo un regalo.
Música recomendada: "Our House". Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young.
And all the winds are like a kiss
And all the years are nemesis
And all the moments fall in mist
And all is dust, remember this
enya
Winter is here, though we have no snow and this will not likely be a white Christmas. So, I thought I would revisit a very lovely summer morning...
It isnt very often that I get the opportunity to photograph wildlife whilst it is not yet light. On this day it was also a little bit misty, just after 7am with rain gently falling on the bracken (it really poured down later in the morning) but whilst I had to use a high ISO to get this shot, I accidentally came across this youngster who was on his own and he didnt seem too perturbed by my presence.
The mist has created a heavy dew on the ground so my boots and bottoms of my trousers were thoroughly soaked so it was back home for a change of clothes then a mug of tea and breakfast. 05;43hrs on the 06.05.2022
Listening to the Dawn chorus in the early light rising over the River Leam Valley at 04:58hrs on the 06.05.2022 Sunrise due at 05:26hrs
It had rained briefly while it was still dark and then the temperature dropped freezing the water droplets covering the plants etc. I was a bit late getting out there but I was just in time to catch the last of the ice before the suns warmth melted it all away.
A nice bright autumn morning with beautiful colours in the sky being reflected from the sunrise on the horizon. The mist is aglow with the breaking sunlight and tinted with the pastel palette of the new day.
November 5th... Day 1 of UK National lockdown No2 . A 3 minute dash Sees another shot taken from the next field.
The first picture on a wonderful February morning in the Wittlich valley not far from home.
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I don't know whether it was Flickr or Lightroom CC that screwed me over by removing this photo that I posted last night.
Grrrr...
Sorry, friends, your faves and comments are all gone too.
Well well, this has just become my most popular image on flickr, many thanks to all who faved and commented. I'm slightly surprised only because so little prep went into it, just the usual success factor of getting up and about early enough and staying flexible - actually clocked this view in my rear mirror first. Thanks again. :-)
Switzerland, May 2021
My best photos are here: www.lacerta-bilineata.com/ticino-best-photos-of-southern-...
My latest ANIMAL VIDEO (warning, it's a bit shocking): www.youtube.com/watch?v=4T2-Xszz7FI
You find a selection of my 80 BEST PHOTOS (mostly not yet on Flickr) here: www.lacerta-bilineata.com/western-green-lizard-lacerta-bi... (the website exists in ESPAÑOL, FRANÇAIS, ITALIANO, ENGLISH, DEUTSCH)
ABOUT THE PHOTO:
So this photo is a bit of a novelty for me - at least here on Flickr, but it's also a journey back in time in a sense. I've always loved b/w and sepia photography; already as a very young teenager I would go out into the woods with an old Pentax Spotmatic (which I had nicked from my father) whenever it was a foggy day to shoot b/w compositions of sunbeams cutting through the ghostlike trees.
I used films with a sensitivity of at least 1600 (for those of you who remember what that means 😉 ), and the resulting photos had an incredibly fine grain which I loved; I blew them up to the size of posters and hung them on the walls of my teenage man-cave next to Hendrix, Jim Morrison and Slash.
But then I abandoned photography altogether for 20 years, and when I finally picked up a camera again, it was one of the digital kind. Now neither film nor grain played any role in my photographic endeavours - let alone b/w compositions: because the reason I fell in love with shooting pictures once more was the rare and incredibly colorful lizard species that had chosen my garden as its habitat.
It's this species - the Lacerta bilineata aka the western green lizard - that my photo website www.lacerta-bilineata.com/ and also my Flickr gallery are dedicated to, but I've since expanded that theme a bit so that it now comprises the whole Lacerta bilineata habitat, which is to say my garden and its immediate surroundings and all the flora and fauna I find in it.
I like that my gallery and the website have this clear theme, because in order to rise to the challenge of portraying all aspects of a very specific little eco system (which also happens to be my home of sorts), it forces me to constantly explore it from fresh angles, and I keep discovering fascinating new motives as my photographic journey continues.
Which brings me to the horse pasture you see in this photo. This playground for happy horsies lies just outside my garden, and it normally only interests me insofar as my green reptile friends claim parts of it as their territory, and I very much prefer it to be horseless (which it thankfully often is).
Not that the horses bother the reptiles - the lizards don't mind them one bit, and I've even seen them jump from the safety of the fly honeysuckle shrub which the pasture borders on right between the deadly looking hooves of the horses to forage for snails, without any sign of fear or even respect.
No, the reason I have a very conflicted relationship with those horses is that they are mighty cute and that there's usually also foals. The sight of those beautiful, happy animals jumping around and frolicking (it's a huge pasture and you can tell the horses really love it) is irresistible: and that inevitably attracts what in the entire universe is known as the most destructive anti-matter and ultimate undoing of any nature photographer: other humans.
Unlike with the horses, the lizards ARE indeed very much bothered by specimens of loud, unpredictable Homo sapiens sapiens - which makes those (and by extension also the horses) the cryptonite of this here reptile photographer. It's not the horses' fault, I know that, but that doesn't change a thing. I'm just telling you how it is (and some of you might have read about the traumatic events I had to endure to get a particular photo - if not, read at your own risk here: www.flickr.com/photos/191055893@N07/51405389883/in/datepo... - which clearly demonstrated that even when it's entirely horseless, that pasture is still a threat for artistic endeavours).
But back to the photo. So one morning during my vacation back in May I got up quite early. It had rained all night, and now the fog was creeping up from the valley below to our village just as the sky cleared up and the morning sun started to shine through the trees.
And just as I did when I was a teenager I grabbed my camera and ran out to photograph this beautiful mood of ghostlike trees and sunbeams cutting through the mist. There had already been such a day a week earlier (which is when I took this photo: www.flickr.com/photos/191055893@N07/51543603732/in/datepo... ), but this time, the horses were also there.
Because of our slightly strained relationship I only took this one photo of them (I now wish I had taken more: talk about missed opportunities), and otherwise concentrated on the landscape. It was only later when I went through all the photos on my computer that I realized that I actually really liked those horses, even despite the whole composition being such a cliché. And I realized another thing: when I drained the photo of all the color, I liked it even better - because there was almost a bit of grain in it, like in the photos from my youth.
Since then I have experimented quite a bit with b/w and sepia compositions (some of which I will upload here eventually I guess), but this photo here is the first one that helped me rediscover my old passion. I hope you like it even though it builds quite a stark contrast with the rest of my tiny - and very colorful - gallery. But in the spirit of showing you the whole Lacerta bilineata habitat (and also in the spirit of expanding my gallery a bit beyond lizards and insects), I think it's not such a bad fit.
As always, many greetings to all of you, have a wonderful day and don't hesitate to let me know what you think 😊
Το χθες είναι μνήμη. Το αύριο φαντασία. Το σήμερα ΖΩΗ !!!
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Morning Mist With Sun Rays
My best photos are here: www.lacerta-bilineata.com/ticino-best-photos-of-southern-...
Switzerland, May 2021
My latest ANIMAL VIDEO (warning, it's a bit shocking): www.youtube.com/watch?v=4T2-Xszz7FI
You find a selection of my 80 BEST PHOTOS (mostly not yet on Flickr) here: www.lacerta-bilineata.com/western-green-lizard-lacerta-bi... (the website exists in ESPAÑOL, FRANÇAIS, ITALIANO, ENGLISH, DEUTSCH)
ABOUT THE PHOTO:
The theme of my gallery is - obviously - Lacerta bilineata (otherwise known as the western green lizard), but partly out of fear to bore the Flickr community with too many photos of the same subject (albeit a very pretty one as far as I'm concerned), I'll try to mix things up a little by uploading other flora and fauna from the lizard kingdom every once in a while.
That includes photos from said kingdom itself, the Lacerta bilineata habitat, which in case of our local western green lizard population consists of my garden and its immediate surroundings.
This particular photo was taken right outside my garden: in the foreground to the left you can see the leaves of the fly honeysuckle shrub where most of "my" little green dragons now reside after my garden has been overrun by my neighbors' cats; clearly visible in the center of the photo is the fence that guards the horse pasture (yes, THAT horse pasture which, as some might remember, caused me so much misery when it attracted some horse-friendly kids at the worst possible moment: www.flickr.com/photos/191055893@N07/51405389883/in/datepo... ), all framed by the beautiful woods that surround our little village.
I took this shot on a spring morning in 2021 after it had been raining all night. By dawn it had cleared up, but the valley below our village had filled with mist, which started to rise as soon as the sun came up behind the mountains. I grabbed my camera and ran out of the house to catch the moment when the mist reached our village just as the sunrise sent the first rays of light through the trees.
It was as gorgeous a morning as you can imagine; the meadows were still wet from the rain, and tiny droplets of water were sparkling everywhere in the grass, illuminated by the sunbeams cutting through the trees. This photo doesn't really do the beauty of the moment justice, but I hope you still get a bit of an impression of what it was like.
Let me know if you want to see more photos of a similar kind or if I should stick to just fauna. Greetings to you a all and have a lovely Sunday!