This is a really wonderful image, Jose. It is so filled with light and a sense of entering or going. I find it inspiring! Perfectly done technically, also.
HelenaN wrote:
Very nice and atmospheric René. Makes me look forward to the Christmas market here which starts next weekend.
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First ice-skating for the season today. Not optimal conditions; very windy and 1-2 cm water on the ice. The ice itself was perfect though, very smooth and still hard and I couldn't resist photographing some cracks. Normally I'd sit on the ice but of course couldn't do that today... Not easy to MF while being bent down, skates on the feet and strong winds trying to blow you away, but I got a few anyway.
What looks a bit like wings or fins are hair-thin cracks seen from a side angle. When the crack appears some air is let in which is why they look white. After a while the air is absorbed and only the thick cracks are visible.
These are very beautiful, Helen. One of my favorite things about photography is its ability to be an epiphany of the ordinary--to transform something ordinary into something that is both full of beauty and also filled with meaning and emotion. Your photographs so often do that for me.
Looking at the color after the sun has set
Tripod mounted Canon new FD 500mm f4.5 L lens and Sony A7r
ISO 100, lens set to f11 for 1/50 second
Exposure corrected by +0.48 stops; processed in LR6.13
August 1, 2015
Near the top of the Trexler Nature Preserve. Schnecksville, PA
@sebboh - That Contax G45 has ALL that wonderful Zeiss goodness going on. Makes even "neighborhood" snaps come to life! Just can't beat Zeiss, and the Contax line (C/Y and G) are especially magical.