Greetings, Fellow Blackers and Whiters!
I had a this opportunity to capture parts of the heavy snowfall that showed up around here a couple of weeks ago... Surprising everybody... again... and interrupting power supply for weeks in tens of settlements.
It wasn't as bad where I stood. It was just thick in a short window of time. Advantage taken and here it is...
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Camera Settings:
Aperture F 5.6
Shutter Speed 1/4000
Light Sensitivity ISO 800
Focal Length 140 mm
Once I had taken a high altitude vantage point, and the semi-curtains of snow were covering the scenery left and right, it was a game of turning around and picking frames in the distance, objects in the foreground sometimes, ways to focus on the air... actually possible this time.
I was content enough to leave backgrounds slightly protrude from behind a few hundreds of meters of precipitation.
How obscured can you go, as an object of accent in a winter photo? Quite a lot, it turns out.
It's a small lake down there. There used to be a cafe of some sorts, a pier, a panorama. Well, I am myself standing in the middle of what used to be the lion's cage in the zoo that is no more. It was disassembled a couple of decades ago. The people from the nearby ghetto invented nanotechnology long before we started reading books about it. Stone blocks and metal bars disappeared as well as the zoo's unfortunate inhabitants.
A lot of the trees did, too. This one is still standing, pretending to believe in witches and the like. Once you see it, you can't help but think about that, too.
Twisted trees were my main models, after all.
And you know who didn't give damn if they were the most improbable presence in the picture? That's right, the sea gulls.
Be like a sea gull!
Peace and Inspiration!
Yours,
Manol