Looking at Fern Hammock Springs (the ground is under spring water).
Tripod mounted A7rIII and Leica R 28mm f2.8 Elmarit V2 lens.
ISO 100, f8, 1/50 second.
Exposure corrected +0.20 Stops.
May 15, 2019
At Fern Hammock Springs, Juniper Springs Recreation Area, Ocala National Forest, near Ocala, FL.
Rich
Juniper Springs is one of the great lesser-known spots in all Florida. I've shot a lot there, back in my days of film DP Merrill, but not yet with Sony. You must have a great one of the waterwheel house to show sometime!
photonoclast wrote:
Juniper Springs is one of the great lesser-known spots in all Florida. I've shot a lot there, back in my days of film DP Merrill, but not yet with Sony. You must have a great one of the waterwheel house to show sometime!
Thank you. Unfortunately I don't have the waterwheel house. I only visited the one afternoon with my wife and her daughter. Her daughter and my wife's mother live in Ocala. But, my wife and her daughter went swimming and I only had a couple of hours to myself to take some photos.
shac wrote:
Douglas - great shots - I especially like the 2nd
Thank you very much! I was surprised by the amount of purple fringe in the shots taken with the 135 GM, allegedly the best lens Sony ever made for the E mount. I guess it was designed to be a portrait lens, not intended to shoot strongly backlit scenes?
A few shots from the dog walk this morning, A7RIV+ CV 21 f1.4 and 200-600. Autumn is in the air.
Beautiful shots of a beautiful town, Peire. We stopped there for only a few hour on our way to Hallstatt, Austria from Prague a few years ago. Truly unique European town.
Excellent images. If I had to live anywhere but the US, I would definitely want to live in the Czech Republic. I love Prague. Such a beautiful and unique city.
kdrk888 wrote:
Beautiful shots of a beautiful town, Peire. We stopped there for only a few hour on our way to Hallstatt, Austria from Prague a few years ago. Truly unique European town.
The Sigma sings in your hand too!
Thank you kdrk888 for sharing my warm feelings towards that beautifull place in otherwise the most picturesque and colorfull country in the Central Europe - The ancient Bochemia.
To me Sigma art lenses resemble strongly the colour rendition of the best of my Leica R lenses,yet a bit towards more subtle,pastel.Yet the luminosity of colours is still there.What is even more important - art zooms generally render like good quality primes.All that make them standing out from the crowd.
Poefolk wrote:
Excellent images. If I had to live anywhere but the US, I would definitely want to live in the Czech Republic. I love Prague. Such a beautiful and unique city.
Thank you Poefolk for your kind words.
It is hard to bit Bohemia (Czech Republic+Moravia) in the number of beautifull,old ,quiet little towns,picturesque old monasterys and big,old towns with great history.There you can find the essence of well preserved and mainained historical monuments of the Central Europe.The time of the soviet occupation was responsible for neglecting the care of monuments, but after the soviets left, the Czechs were able to take care of their cultural heritage again.
In my country, Poland, it was quite different.The fronts passed through it several times on both sides during the First World War, the War with the Soviets and the Second World War.Not to mention the devastating wars of the 17th and 18th centuries,but the recent conflicts were really disastrous.
Each time either Germans,or Soviets, or both, tried to destroy Poland and Polish culture.They murdered or deported to Siberia, and/or to concentration camps best of our elites in order to eradicate all Polish.Historical and cultural monuments were deliberately destroyed.Documents burned to ashes.Soviets took our lands in the east,in today's Belarus and Ukraine, where in most cities there are still traces of a centuries-old culture created by my brothers from the past.Sadly,they were forcibly evicted from there.
That is is why it is much more difficult to find beautiful, old historical beauties in contemporary skeleton-like Poland, but I will never stop my efforts to go on with this.
