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Amazonian legend
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Copyright: Marco Aurelio Peixoto (Mapeix-Br) Silver Star Critiquer/Silver Note Writer [C: 46 W: 0 N: 49] (251)
Genre: Places
Medium: Color
Date Taken: 2006-01-29
Categories: Nature
Camera: FujiFilm FinePix S5100
Exposure: f/3.1, 1/320 seconds
More Photo Info: [view]
Photo Version: Original Version
Date Submitted: 2006-02-01 6:49
Viewed: 1055
Points: 18
[Note Guidelines] Photographer's Note
The Acclimatizing Garden was created in June 1808 by D.João, Regent Prince at the time, later D.João VI, in order to acclimatize the spices brought from the West Indies. Threatened by Napoleon's military forces, the Portuguese Nobility moved to Brazil and established their Government headquarters in Rio de Janeiro. Among other benefits, the city got a gunpowder factory, built where the old Rodrigo de Freitas Sugar Mill used to be. Delighted by its nature exuberance, D.João installed the Garden, which on October 11th became the Royal Horticulture. The first plants were brought from Gabrielle Garden in France by Luiz de Almeida Vieira e Silva as an offer to D.João VI. The Palma Mater was among them. The Garden opened officially after 1822, and since then, has been visited by many distinguished personalities: Albert Einstein, the United Kingdom's Queen Elisabeth, the King and Queen of Sweden, and more recently, the Princess Sayako of Japan came especially for the opening of the Japanese Garden. Several naturalists and administrators helped the Botanical Garden on its course. Frei Leandro, Serpa Brandão, Cândido Baptista de Oliveira, Custódio Serrão, Karl Glasl, João Barbosa Rodrigues, Pacheco Leão, Campos Porto and João Geraldo Kuhlmann. During the administration of Dr. Barbosa Rodrigues, which began in 1890, the first greenhouse at the Rio de Janeiro Botanical Gardens was built. It was made out of wood and shaped as an octagon. In the 1930's, the greenhouse was remodelled in glass and iron, similar to the style of the English glasshouses. Today the Orchidarium includes the glasshouse and the whole area that surrounds it, with a nursery with over 3000 orchid vases. The Orchidarium is open to the public everyday from 8 to 5pm.
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  • jkos Gold Star Critiquer/Gold Note Writer [C: 95 W: 0 N: 114] (981)
  • [2006-02-01 7:00]

Ótimo enquadramento e ponto de vista.
Bela composição. Muito bom passar o
dia fotografando no JB!
TFS,
Joel

Linda foto, belíssimo enquadramento, cores e nitidez. A única caisa que faltou e poderia deixar a foto ainda + perfeita, seria pegar algum pássaro ou inseto junto.
Parabéns...
Beto Grein

Very nice Marco, I'd love to have taken this shot. Great focus and colour and I love the repetition of form.

Cheers
Vernon

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  • naps Silver Star Critiquer [C: 28 W: 0 N: 6] (56)
  • [2006-02-08 6:52]

Adorei a foto: motivo, enquadramento e cores.

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  • MIG13 Gold Star Critiquer [C: 1854 W: 0 N: 0] (0)
  • [2006-04-11 20:07]

Olá, Marco Aurélio! Bela foto do Jardim Botânico, de excelente efeito plástico, pela composição esmerada e pelas cores vivas. Parabéns! Miguel.

Realmente Marco, a minha foto é bem parecida com a sua. Eu gostei ainda mais da sua, devo ao pont ode vista quase na mesma altura das folhas, pegando essa lateral das folhas. Além disso gosta dessa sensação das folhas irem aumetando de tamanho conforme os olhos sobem para o topo da foto.

Excelentes cores e nitidez. Bela foto.

Abraço
Andre

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  • utkue Gold Star Critiquer/Silver Workshop Editor [C: 694 W: 12 N: 498] (3420)
  • [2007-04-28 6:12]

Hello Marco,
Very beautiful plants (lotus). Sharpness and colours are excellent. Well done.

Hi Marco, A beautiful photo & a very good POV, the perfect colours are superb & excellent detail in the lilies., a wonderfully composed shot, kind regards Wilson.

Salut marco,

Que de couleurs !!!
L'angle de prise de vue est interessant,
la pdc est bonne.

Bravo pour cette photo

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