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The second from the serie on salt pans in Secovlje

SALT-PANS THROUGH THE CENTURIES

The short, no more than 46.6 km long coast of Slovene Istra was at the beginning of this century still strewn with a number of salt-pans. The most important among them were the piran salt-pans, of which only the miniature pans at Strunjan and the extensive Secovlje salt-pans (covering some 850 ha) along the mouth of the Dragonja river have survived to this day. The first written records concerning the Piran pans, for which it is not known when they actually began to spring up, date to the second half of the 13th century from the Piran statute. During several changes in political and social condotions as well as with their continuously new rulers: the Venetian republic, French and Austrian Empires, Italian state, Yugoslavia and Slovenia. there have been a number of significant turning points in the apatial and technological development of the salt-pans, the last one at the end of the 60's, when the production of salt was abandoned in the southern part of Secovlje salt-pans called Fontanigge. This area has been continuously transformed, by the workings of nature, into a series of diverse and more or less saline biotopes which supplement each other and form a closed ecosystem.

Using gradient tobacco specle, the picture is just resized and lowered kb.

sam224, linask, Henryk_Bilor, Silvio1953, sabyasachi1212, rafid76, ChrisJ, vilius, Donald, AiresSantos, Mistral has marked this note useful

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sam224 (5851) 2006-12-03 4:53

Che bei colori in questo scatto Miuky. Le foto contro luce sono sempre una sfida difficile da vincere, ma in questo caso ci sei riuscita perfettamente,
Bello il riflesso del sole nella parte bassa dell'immagine.
Brava.

ben4321 (9839) 2006-12-03 5:07

Aah, the tobacco grad again, but this time it's worked a lot better. Because the sun is low in the sky, the orange effect doesn't look too unnatural.
You used the line of the edge of the salt pan to good effect here, and on the whole the composition is a pleasing one. I would maybe have cloned out the bright blob of flare below the sun, as it does disturb the smooth gradation of tones in the sky a little bit.
I'm a bit puzzled as to why the sun isn't directly above it's reflection; looking closely you can see that the reflection is further over to the left than one would expect. Must be some strange optical effect; light bouncing around between filter and lens or something.
I like this one Miuky, good work.
Cheers,
Ben

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Henryk_Bilor (20377) 2006-12-03 5:14

Hi Miuky
I don`t like tobacco ;). But lovely view limited by the Sun and its reflection. Nice colours and capture of the spacely place :).
Have a nice day.

tjanze (5674) 2006-12-03 5:20

Zdravo Maja!
Še ena odlična.Zanimivo bi bilo videt isto fotografijo z cirkularnim polarizacijskim filtrom.Nebo bi bilo modro namesto rjavo.
Samo ideja.Fotografija mi je všeč.
Pozdrav!

Silvio1953 (45136) 2006-12-03 6:29

Ciao Maja, bellissimo controluce con splendidi colori, splendido il riflesso del sole in primo piano, bellissima foto e nota molto interessante, Brava, ciao Silvio

beautiful_mind (294) 2006-12-03 8:00

amazing shot,I like the colour of the sky,the mirror like water ,the sun and its reflection,every thing is perfect here.

mdetay (4362) 2006-12-03 8:16

Ciao Miuky,
Great shot of space.
Very nice colours. Well done.
Congratulations. Great composition.
Cheers from Hong Kong.
Michel

scientific (403) 2006-12-03 8:59

Hi,
the color of the sky very nice,the sun and its reflection beautiful. Thanks for sharing..
hülya

sothy81 (8574) 2006-12-03 12:05

Hey M, this is excellent. Great details, and very colorful. You know, to me it seems like a magazine picture. Great job. Sothy

sabyasachi1212 (19552) 2006-12-03 12:13

Hi Miuky,
The tobacco gradient works well here. Good use of the lines. An excellent note to complement a good photo.
With Greetings from India
Sabyasachi

rafid76 (2611) 2006-12-03 23:24

i unique shot and an alien land!, i love the transition of colors here from sepia to to blue!! i also like the emptiness, it clears my mind

ChrisJ (71614) 2006-12-04 3:36

Hi Miuky

I like the tobacco / cokin filter effect here that enhances the warm vs cold color opposition. Perfect symmetry, & great reflections, colour, & sharpness. I also like the right angled 'v' notch. Tfs!

yanm (1485) 2006-12-04 5:12

Really great idea to put the horison in the middle Miuky. And another one of great use of tobacco

Yan

vincz (19085) 2006-12-05 3:27

Very impressibve POV and unique colours. Great use of the tobacco filter. What a feeling of space... Great job.

Benedict (7062) 2006-12-05 19:17

everything looks perfect here but the sun has been cropped into almost 3/4 its full size. the notes are very informative, miuky!
cheers from LA and arigato!
benedict

Lix (0) 2006-12-06 6:55

Hi Miuky!
Great shot! It's a wonderful photo, but I believe that the sun must be little low, however sun's effect is very nice.

Alessandro

berek (29235) 2006-12-07 4:07

Hi Miuky,
very good hard geometric working here. I like your light management and framing very much. simple and powerful compostion.have a nice day.
Burak
my overall evaluation -> ****

vilius (633) 2006-12-07 17:44

All your photos are marvellous, but this one really stands out! Nice geometric shape, reflections of the sun and fantastic color gradient in the sky! Superb sharpness and details in front. Interesting note. Bravo! Thanks for sharing - Vilius

dolin (15647) 2006-12-09 5:45

Hi Miuky.
Un joli moment avec de magnifiques couleurs.
J'aime bien ce contraste entre ces couleurs froides et chaudes et puis c'est impressionnant cette surface platte à perte de vue.
Jolie prise
Fred

daddo (11961) 2006-12-11 4:04

Zdravo Miuky. Nesto zvoni po Japanskom. This is a wonderfully cretive piece. Surreal, as salt-pans tend to look, but you have lifted the whole thing to the realm of inspirational, dream like.The colours are evocative, the composition most innovative with the triangular shape jutting towards the viewer. Nesto specijalno. Pozdrav. Klaudio.

Donald (134) 2006-12-15 13:48

Hi Miuky,I like this a lot as I have never seen anything like it before! I think you stood in just the right POV and your composition is realy good, with a good DOF and the sun lights the ground up very well.
Beautiful in its own way.
Cheers
Donald

marcnol (386) 2006-12-17 19:11

Hi Miuky,
this is an amazing piture. I love the composition and forms and obviously the colors. It is a really difficult picture to expose and balance. Congratulations!

TFS!
marcelo

Mistral (13872) 2006-12-30 13:43

Hi Miuky,
I like your composition and your note.
Good use of tobacco gradient.
A smile for your 2007!
Luca

rzesynepkarzarn (0) 2007-01-13 16:37

Everything is amazing in this photo, also I can see some foot prints of an animal passing by:)) Thanks for your efforts.
Zeynep

livinitout (938) 2007-12-03 18:29 [Comment]

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