Photographer’s Note
The Danish King's Garden is situated next to Toompea Hill in Old town of Tallinn. Old legends tell us the Danes received their national flag in Tallinn. On the brink of losing the battle on the 15th of July, 1219, the flag was handed down to them from the skies, and the battle tide turned. :)
Denmark’s victory resulted in over a hundred years of Danish rule in Tallinn and northern Estonia. Now each summer, Danneborg Day is celebrated in the newly renovated romantic garden.
What I like about the iew from there is the contrast of old and new. In the summer there would be lots of leaves, now just the brances. I kind of liked the effect. Instead of focusing on the background buildings, I chose to focus on foreground treebranches. The dumb thing to do was to leave ISO rating at 400 from the last night :)
I would have loved to leave more of the old houses in the picture, but the angle really didn't work for that, so, during postprocessing I cropped the picture a bit, leaving only bits of roof from the old houses. I also slightly adjusted contrast.
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Photo Information
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Copyright: Lennart Sundja (lennarts)
(547) - Genre: Places
- Medium: Color
- Date Taken: 2005-02-23
- Categories: Architecture
- Camera: Pentax *ist DS, Pentax-DA Zoom 18-55mm F3.5-F5.6 AL
- Exposure: f/11, 1/750 seconds
- More Photo Info: view
- Photo Version: Original Version
- Date Submitted: 2005-02-24 4:25








