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Enchanted Forest with Biotar 75mm

Dr Klaus Schmitt

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(Reiss Insel Mannheim, side arm of Rhine river https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reißinsel)​
 
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Asher Kelman

OPF Owner/Editor-in-Chief
Klaus,

You are unbelievable. This is a superb way of showing how to explore, how to explain,. how to teach, how to film ...... and how to find subjects to study!

You start by a wide angle view showing, perhaps the access to the place and its context. Next you start to move in, teasing us with the fabulous milieu of textures and colors as the light defines the bark and moss on trees.

Finally you take us to a tiny treasured private corner where a story unfolds. This is life visited, one important facet taken at a time and treated with utmost respect.

It's as if you were trained by a native tracker and guardian of the forrest, who trusts you to cherish every part of its community.

Asher
 

Asher Kelman

OPF Owner/Editor-in-Chief
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The start! Here we see the algae tinged slow moving shoreline waters where a boat is moored. Next time, one duck or bird on the boat.....but actually, the starkness here, does well. There is no attempt at romanticism or easy beauty and postcard prettiness. This is quiet and not magical, just the truth of nature, most of the time, robust, unforgiving and able to outlast us. We just visit.

Asher
 

K.Hannah

New member
Awww! Look at the little frog! Love frogs... great images loved the middle three. Really were photos of an enchanted forest.
 

Dr Klaus Schmitt

Well-known member
Klaus,

You are unbelievable. This is a superb way of showing how to explore, how to explain,. how to teach, how to film ...... and how to find subjects to study!

You start by a wide angle view showing, perhaps the access to the place and its context. Next you start to move in, teasing us with the fabulous milieu of textures and colors as the light defines the bark and moss on trees.

Finally you take us to a tiny treasured private corner where a story unfolds. This is life visited, one important facet taken at a time and treated with utmost respect.

It's as if you were trained by a native tracker and guardian of the forrest, who trusts you to cherish every part of its community.

Asher

Thank you Asher, this is actually how I do things and see things in a "cineastic" way, telling a
(my) story of that forest, hence why I selected that sequence - and it was actually shot in that sequence!
 

Dr Klaus Schmitt

Well-known member
Awww! Look at the little frog! Love frogs... great images loved the middle three. Really were photos of an enchanted forest.

Thank you Hannah! A toad it is actually, and since that forest is so mystical and quiet, it came crushing through some leaves on the ground, startling me, as I was unsure what it was, a snake, a rat it could have been, then it fully appeared, allowed me take a few portrait shots, and disappeared in the dark again...
 

K.Hannah

New member
Thank you Hannah! A toad it is actually, and since that forest is so mystical and quiet, it came crushing through some leaves on the ground, startling me, as I was unsure what it was, a snake, a rat it could have been, then it fully appeared, allowed me take a few portrait shots, and disappeared in the dark again...

Toad.... We have a frog here that has very similar coloration and so my brain said frog forgetting that it could be toad....

Hey at least it wasn't a hungry dragon, you were in an enchanted forest after all! lol
 

Dr Klaus Schmitt

Well-known member
Toad.... We have a frog here that has very similar coloration and so my brain said frog forgetting that it could be toad....

Hey at least it wasn't a hungry dragon, you were in an enchanted forest after all! lol

Well, you may be correct though, so many frogs there is, so I wonder if I have seen it right...
 
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