"THE FOREST"... (But seen from below) 📷 || ENG-ESP
Hello dear #Hive friends!.... When I go out on the streets with my camera I usually take long walks through the towns to take pictures and collect stories with each of them.... It's also common that, when the heat gets too hot, I go to some forest at the edge of town and try to cool off a bit there... This is something relatively easy to do, as the edges of the villages are surrounded by groves and small woods...
¡Hola queridos amigos de #Hive!... Cuando salgo a las calles con mi cámara suelo hacer largas caminatas por las calles del pueblo para hacer fotografías y colectar historias junto a cada una de ellas... También es común el qué, cuando el calor arrecia, yo me dirija a algún bosque a las orillas del pueblo y procure refrescarme un poco allí... Eso es algo relativamente fácil de hacer, pues los bordes del pueblo están rodeados de arboledas y bosques pequeños...
Yesterday I did that, I went to rest a bit in the woods and sat under the big trees, thinking that there wouldn't be much to photograph there.... But, as soon as it occurred to me to look up.... Good heavens, I almost screamed because of the emotion I felt when I saw the beautiful spectacle of the branches of the trees contrasting against the blue sky...
Ayer hice eso, me fui a descansar un poco en el bosque y me senté debajo de los grandes árboles, pensando que allí no habría mucho que fotografiar... Pero, apenas se me ocurrió mirar hacia arriba... ¡Santos cielos, casi grito debido a la emoción que sentí al ver el hermoso espectáculo de las ramas de los arboles contrastando contra el cielo azul!...
Obviously, this is a forest with certain very particular characteristics... It is a remnant of the old gallery forests of the town, which existed massively before the arrival of citrus, tobacco and sugar cane crops and their consequent deforestation in the land... So this forest is composed of huge trees probably more than 100 years old and mostly of a species whose common name is "Samán" (Samanea saman)...
Obviamente, este es un bosque con ciertas características muy particulares... Se trata de un remanente de los antiguos bosques de galería del pueblo, los cuales existían masivamente antes de la llegada del cultivo de rubros cítricos, tabaco y caña y su consecuente deforestación en los terrenos... Entonces este bosque está compuesto por enormes árboles seguramente de más de 100 años de antigüedad y en su mayoría de una especie cuyo nombre vulgar es "Samán" (Samanea saman)...
The "samanes" are very tall trees, up to 20 meters and with wide canopies. Their branches spread wide around the stem of the tree and tend to have wingspans greater than their height. They also have fine, thin leaves, which tend to begin to fall at this time of year (the beginning of the dry season here).... All these characteristics will combine to generate this attractive visual effect, whose photos I share with you today.
Los "samanes" son árboles muy altos, de hasta 20 metros y con amplias copas. Sus ramas se expanden a lo ancho en torno al tallo de árbol y suelen tener envergaduras mayores a su altura, también son de hojas finas y menudas, las cuales tienden a comenzar a caer en esta época del año (comienzo de la temporada seca aquí)... Todas esas características se conjugaran para generar este efecto visual atractivo, cuyas fotos comparto con ustedes hoy.
It is a relatively easy type of photography to achieve, because after several shots you can find the most suitable combination of parameters and then you can make small adjustments related to the luminosity in each photo... On the day I took these, I had my old Sigma 18-200mm f3.5-6.3 II DC OS HSM zoom lens with me, so this allowed me to have wide focal lengths to capture the forest canopy in a fairly panoramic way.
Es un tipo de fotografías relativamente fácil de logra, pues después de varios disparos se puede hallar la combinación de parámetros más adecuada y luego se pueden hacer pequeños ajuste relativos a la luminosidad en cada foto... El día que hice estas, yo llevaba conmigo mi viejo lente zoom Sigma 18-200mm f3.5-6.3 II DC OS HSM, entonces esto me permitió disponer focales amplias para captar el dosel del bosque de forma bastante panorámica.
Perhaps the most complicated part of taking these photos was "deciding where to start and when to end" because the possibilities are almost endless, as soon as you move a little, turn your head, lie down on the ground or change the angle, everything changes up there in a charming way... It is a very funny photographic motif!...
Quizás los más complicado de hacer estas fotos fue "decidir por donde comenzar y cuando terminar" pues la posibilidades son casi infinitas, apenas uno se mueve un poco, gira la cabeza, se acuesta en el suelo o cambia de angulo, todo cambia allá arriba de manera encantadora... ¡Es un motivo fotográfico muy divertido!...
That's all for today, I hope you liked these pictures, I send a big hug to all of you and my thanks for stopping by here and appreciate... We'll see each other again soon!... Always with more pictures in between!...
Eso es todo por hoy, espero que os hayan gustado estas fotografías, envío un fuerte abrazo a tos y mi agradecimiento por pasar por aquí y apreciar... ¡Nos veremos pronto nuevamente!... ¡Siempre con más fotos de por medio!...
"We make photographs to understand what our lives mean to ourselves." - Ralph Hattersley.
"Hacemos fotografías para comprender lo que nuestras vidas significan para nosotros mismos." - Ralph Hattersley.
Cámara: Nikon D7000 | Objetivo: Sigma 18-200mm f3.5-6.3 II DC OS HSM
Montalbán, Carabobo, Venezuela.
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Oh wow, these are amazing shots man! Love the unusual angle, very cool effect :) How about submitting one of these great pictures to my nature challenge? Would be an honor for me :)
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HOLY GOD, I'M ON THE EDGE OF BELIEVING IN TELAPATHY @phortun FRIEND!... Would you believe me that without seeing this comment of yours, I had already done what you say in your above comment, more than an hour ago?... Simply incredible!... Go to your challenge post and see!... I love #Hive for these things and many more!... #Hive connecting people in the world!... What a place to be!... ¡YES!!!!!
Geez, sorry but in my excitement, I forgot to thank you for your appreciation and support for this post!... But I'm still amazed by this fact!... Thank you very much friend!... 🙏
PS: The photo that I placed in the post of your challenge was one from a more conventional angle of the forest, but there you can also see that magical way that these trees have of "occupying the space of the canopy almost without touching each other"... It's kind of fascinating... I think I'll go there with my 35mm lens in the future to take some golden light afternoon photos... I hope I can do it!...
I hope that your health continues to improve and that your fever has definitely disappeared!
Regards!
Hehe, that´s nice :) I saw your entry, a great one. Hive telepathy working across the globe :D Thanks again for your participation and support. Much appreciated. Oh and thanks for asking, not much improvement yet but no worries, I will be fine soon ;)
Love these giants! A home for epiphytes (I spotted many on the images) and, potentially, monkeys. Every such a tree can be a skyscraper for them :)
From wiki:
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I've had such experience in Thailand and generally tropical Asia where I've spent ... 3 years or so (didn't count). I have a ticket already... To Bangkok, first time after the damn pandemic...
Wow!... What an interesting fact reported by Humboldt... It's something that not even I, living here, had read before!... Excellent, thanks for commenting... Those dimensions really correspond to a Superb specimen!. .. Surely they double those of the largest Saman trees that I have seen around here... Pewroi surely in our forests of the central plains (those that have not yet been felled) there must be specimens much larger than those in my village. .. To Bangkok?... Yeah!!!!... Is awesome friend!... Hope to see an impressive lot of shots and stories of your adventures!... :))... Thans a lot for stopping, appreciation, and useful comment!... Sending hugs!!!
Good Day Jesus... sorry, had to unfollow because of the too many reblogs on your account (for me at least). Though i put you on a list and will still come by from time to time to see your awesome pictures.
Oh dude, don't worry, I understand! :)...I usually reblog everything I read!...(I'm a bit obsessive about it)...Don't worry!...I also use follow lists for my favorite authors (I've put you in one!) :)... That allows me to better manage my time and makes it easy for me not to lose anything they publish!... A hug!!!...
Hahaha, good to know... much appreciated dear friend from far away!
El samán extiende sus ramas como si posaran para que las admiren.