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Blue Ribbon above, my favorite picture of the Maldives series
Golden moraine, initially i thought it was a baby moraine, to find out in the end it is very rare specie of moraine
Honeycomb-Moraine
from now on whenever i put * at the end of the tile it means there are more than one picture in the post
from now on whenever i put * at the end of the tile it means there are more than one picture in the post
from now on whenever i put * at the end of the tile it means there are more than one picture in the post
from now on whenever i put * at the end of the tile it means there are more than one picture in the post
perhaps the most photographed fish
2 weeks ago we came back from one diving week in Maldives. Underwater in the last day i realized i have taken no pictures of the island, these 3 are taken early in the morning, before the water plane came to pick us up. from now on whenever i put * at the end of the tile it means there are more than one picture in the post 
actually it seems there are two lakes, next to each other with the same name..i like this most
]]>fantastic location, the weather conditions almost perfect, 2 batteries depleted over night, i’m very happy with this picture but i still have to go there again to get exactly what i have in mind…realised i need a moonless night…
if you look carefully at Matterhorn’s down right side you can see light trails of the climbers heading up
]]>this is the first attempt at capturing stars-trail over matterhorn, i only got these two pictures then the clouds rose…waited and waited…to realize the best view would’ve been from the hotel window not down there in the cloud watching the dew freezing on camera…i’ll go again in 3 weeks time, the moon will be at it’s first quarter. i got some nice pictures now, but not the ones i wanted..
this sunday we’ve been hiking along the Schynige Platte, one of the nicest hikes in Switzerland, being rewarded at the end of it with this magnificant lake. I am waiting for almost 3 years to photograph this lake during the night with stars trails and reflection of the mountains on the water…but is not easy as the perfect conditions are: moon in first or last quarter, cloudless night, no wind (for mirror effect) and to be a weekend and between june-september (else i’ll freeze to death)…make the math and you will see how often this happens in an year… 23rd july will be the first attempt this year.
as recently a friend of mine asked me how i get the landscape pictures and what filters do i use here were the steps:
1. manual exposure with polariser filter to bring up the blues and cut reflections to a minimum. notice how too bright sky moves your attention focus from the lake to the sky
2. using an Neutral Graduated Density filter , of strength 1.2 in this case, darkened the sky, but the exposure was still to short 1/40 and the water has ripples
3. adding an ND filter of 2.1 reduced the exposure to 4 seconds, enough to get a smooth effect. i am using Hitech filters for now, and when NDs of 2 or higher are used (single or as stacked results) color tint occurs, but the Lee Foundation and the Big stopper are on the way!!!
(see full post for more pictures)
the famous red-eyed frog…a must to photograph! i only got to see three (two weeks apart) this one left few seconds after i got this picture, i didn’t even have time to recompose
the red posion dart frog, is about 2cm big, not that deadly poisonous but deadly cute
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