Pixls.us’s “Play Raw” is a wonderful opportunity for me to resume taking pictures after many years away. Above all, because I’m just a simple enthusiast who has recently bought a pocket camera and had few opportunities to exploit it in the past two months, but which he already likes.
One of my first shots with the DC-LX100 II was during a walk in the near mountains.
Here, we are in the area of the so-called “Bostel” on the Asiago plateau (Veneto region, Italy), a fascinating area under many points of view. For instance, due to the presence of human settlements dating back to the Iron Age, or because it’s a border area between the Southern part of the plateau and the two valleys that outline its perimeter.
Around me the landscape seems to have stood still for centuries. Everywhere there are dry stone walls, and a black earth on which the famous mountain potatoes are grown. The
lianas of Clematis vitalba climbing the vast variety of trees in a mixed forest, which was miraculously spared from the destruction of the Great War (and the reconstruction that followed it).
This shot, taken mid-morning on a sunny day, portrays nothing more than a thorny bramble leaf, reddened by the winter cold in January. It’s not a pretty picture, but it reflects the desire to exploit that warm red color to overcome the cold, stinging, and sometimes painful, experiences of our lives.
I started reaching Pixls.us recently and I know it (you) can teach me a lot about how to rekindle my passion for photography. And in terms of RAW editing Pixls.us is a worthy school. If you’re feeling in the spirit, have your own interpretation of this warm, stinging leaf. Feel free to express yourself as you like. I don’t publish my XMP here so as not to influence you too much. Thank you.
This file is licensed as CC0.
EDIT: Sorry for my English… I feel there’s something wrong in what I wrote, the way I wrote it, but tonight I’m too tired and lazy to take action and correct it all the way.
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