Sant Elm Photo | TrekEarth

Photographer’s Note

Another shot from our short vacation on Mallorca, also known as Germany's 17th State. :-) We avoided the typical German places like the Ballermann and spent our time checking out the island.

We had wonderful weather for the first days, but I once again proved that I'm a Rain Goddess (rain seems to follow me EVERYWHERE!). In this case, it was only a short, warm shower and when it passed, the light was just wonderful.

From mallorcaweb.com:

Sant Elm is a small coastal resort in the municipality of Andratx, that faces the small island Es Pantaleu, and the larger one, Sa Dragonera. Originally it was a small nucleus for fishermen, called sa Palomera, but with the arrival of tourism as from the second half of the 20th century it became a tourist resort with summer houses, flats, restaurants and a few hotels. Now there is a population of about 500 people who live mainly from tourism. In spite of the urban development in the last decade, Sant Elm still preserves its small fishing village charm as it was. The sandy beach, Cala Conills and Cala en Basset, the islet Es Pantaleu and sa Dragonera all form an extraordinarily attractive natural land seascape.

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pajaran (3240) 2009-08-27 11:44

Dobro vece iz Srbije.
Dobra fotografija,kompozicija,boje i ostrina .Prednji plan svetlih boja, srednji plan umerenih boja, kao i oblaci tamnih boja koji docaravaju dramu nailazeceg nevremena.
Pozdrav Paja.

PixelTerror (86192) 2009-08-27 12:16

Hola Hermana (also known as Germany's 2nd language, juste before greek and turkish...)
Good that you still have that nice illuminated foreground but yep agree the upper left corner contrasts strongly and that tells nothing good, time to bring the 450D in the safe area !
Have a nice and luminous summer evening JY

bema (8788) 2009-08-27 12:19

Hallo Linda,

mal kurz auf "Malle" gewesen..
tolles Mitbringsel mit sehr intensiven Farben und einer sehr ausdruckstarken Komposition..
Gefällt mir sehr..

viele Grüße, Bernd

gildasjan (23809) 2009-08-27 12:20

Bonjour linda
Spectaculaire ce ciel et cette lumière pour une très bonne image.
Bonne soirée
Cordialement
gildas

cherryripe (19031) 2009-08-27 13:56

Hi Linda
It's great that you've posted this photo here too as it's so pretty with the light and colourful boats.
Regards
Nikki

Clementi (44265) 2009-08-27 22:14

Ciao Linda,
splendid postcard with these dark tones, very beautiful the landscape perfect the colors. good job
Giorgio

wolf38 (12859) 2009-08-27 22:23

Hallo Linda. Das Photo gefällt mir. Es ist schön und stimmungsvoll. Licht und Farben sind excellent. Viele Grüße, Wolfgang.

danyy (68887) 2009-08-27 23:20

Bonjour Linda,
c'est vraiment là, le genre d'atmosphère qui me plait vraiment, des lumières magnifiquement capturées, pas édidentes, une profondeur qui donne envie de respirer la photo avec toutefois un tout petit défaut, l'horizon qui penche un peu sur la gauche.
Un paysage magnifique.
Tous mes compliments.
Daniel.

Rafer (4319) 2009-08-27 23:54

Bonita composición con una buena luz y contrástes...saludos

hardyuno (2327) 2009-08-28 0:23

Guten Morgen Linda,
sehr schön getroffen, die Diagonale mit den bunten Booten wirkt sich gut aus. Wunderbare Tiefe mit dem dramatischen Wolkenhimmel.
Schöne Grüße
Hartmut

feather (49862) 2009-08-28 2:40

It looks like the rain cloud is away to bother some other poor holiday-makers. The light it left behind is magnificent. Your composition is also excellent with lots of diagonal lines converging on the point of a triangle. The boats provide lots of additional colour. Well done
Kath

baba_flies (8013) 2009-08-28 3:55

Liebe Linda ... und dann hat es noch ein paar Schweizer oben auf dazu :))) Aber man kann die Ballermanns vermeiden. Zum Glueck sind sie dort, in einer Ecke, dann hat es mehr Platz auf der anderen Seite der Insel. Uhhh das sind dunkle boese Wolken, aber genau die geben den "Ton" an, sie machen das Bild dramatisch und heben es ab vom sonstigen "Ferienblau". Ein wunderbares Wochenende wuensche ich, es steht schon fast bevor ... Barbara.

coco (27866) 2009-08-28 11:00

Hi Linda.

Nice colours and composition. Maybe the exposure is too dark in the left part, but the whole photo looks very interesting.

Well done.

Waylim (10843) 2009-08-28 11:25

Hi Linda,
Very beautiful and drammatic sky and moody atmosphere. I always love the combination of dark clouds on one side and sunny on the other, it creates dramma and intensified the light. Beautiful composition, rich tone and colors. Good mangement of the light and contrast. Due to the low light and perhaps a higher ISO setting, I detect a little more noise than you usually do. Thanks Linda. Have a great weekend.
Way

delpeoples (6136) 2009-08-28 18:22

Hi Linda, ha! Germany never looked so...well...Spanish! :)) The image is so sharp, you really have perfected your art. Great DOF from start to finish. That moody sky is fantastic, I can;t see in your Info if you used a filter, but whatever you have done, it really works. Looking at your Gallery, you really know how to work that Canon to excellent effect. My compliments, Lisa

MarianneS (14302) 2009-08-28 23:48

Hello Sister Linda!
A very nice view from Mallorca. The weather gives a special atmosphere to the scene and it works very well.
I am glad that you had a wonderful time over there!
A big big hug,
Marianne

jimkil (592) 2009-09-11 18:39

In terms of light Linda, I think this is your best so far. The cliffs and moody clouds work well together, something in abundance here in NZ. The light in the bottom right catching the boats are superb, while the compo is well balanced. Terrific stuff.
Regards
Jim