When I take photographs in rural environments, something very similar starts to happen to me as with street photography... Gradually I start to "look beyond the landscape" and after a few pictures I find myself looking for what I call "complex spaces"...
01-📷 / "Door... Necessary?"
02-📷 / "Signal"
03-📷 / "Drought behind the wire"
04-📷 / "After the fire"
Therefore, these photos are very diverse and aim to try to share with you a more intimate kind of vision on the rural spaces around my village. Obviously, there is something "of myself" in these photos, something very particular, something that resembles when I walk down the street and people call me "The madman with the camera in his hand"... But this time in a "rural" version... ;)
05-📷 / "Collage in grey weather"
06-📷 / "Vision with abandoned house"
07-📷 / "Minimalism in flock"
08-📷 / "Just a bit of death"
This is really fun to do. I mean everything from the time I'm taking these photos to the hours I spend in front of my PC selecting them, editing them, looking at them and (the nicest thing) captioning them!... I like to do this and that's why I also like to share it with you...
09-📷 / "The valley below the edge"
10-📷 / "Old ranch gate"
11-📷 / "With a tiny motorbike"
12-📷 / "A totem in the fog"
I have prepared an additional black and white edition for these photographs to share here as well. As usual with me, I really like to observe and compare the colour versus monochrome versions in the same photos. That's something that teaches me and tells me a bit more about each photo and also serves as an additional editing exercise,a thing which I value a lot (I like to edit for hours, I do a lot of catharsis doing that).
(Please CLICK on the photos to enlarge)
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ADDITIONAL TECHNICAL NOTE: Photographs captured with my Nikon D7000 DSLR camera in RAW format, then processed in Adobe Camera RAW for adjustments regarding light, sharpening, contrast and depth... The shots are then exported to JGP format on which minor modifications such as straightening and adding watermarks were carried out using PhotoScape 3.6.3.
"We make photographs to understand what our lives mean to ourselves." - Ralph Hattersley.
Camera: Nikon D7000
Lens: Sigma 18-200mm f3.5-6.3 II DC OS HSM
Lens: Tokina ATX-PRO 100mm f/2.8 d MACRO
Lens: AF-S DX NIKKOR 55-300mm f/4.5-5.6G ED VR
Lens: AF-S DX NIKKOR 18-55mm f/3.5-5.6G VR
Lens: Nikon AF Nikkor 50 mm f/1.8d FX
Lens:AF-S DX NIKKOR 35mm f/1.8G
Montalbán, Carabobo, Venezuela.
