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Hidden Treasure
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Hidden Treasure

by Hélio Cristóvão

Category: Earth, Sea & SkyAdded November 26, 2009456 views

Waterfalls

Keywords: hidden, pool, green, cyan, beautiful, treasure, granite, metallic, gerês




Geres Range is a world of water. And the sound of water is unstoppable.

Photographing this cascade resulted in a 7-hour adventure hiking and photography, climbing up the mountain trail that follows the river Arado upstream. Going down a steep valley and up the broad river bed, it there is the treasure, an impressive cascade of dozens of meters high flows down the mountain between bright, "metallic"granite walls.
In this place the flow was very strong, caused by too much rain in the autumn of November. A mist of water whipped me and equipment, lenses and filters when I approached the pool to shoot. Sometimes authentic water fountains watered thoroughly when the wind blew a little harder.
Staying on site for 2 hours, between few changes of light, very mild, diffuse, cloudy sky, the brightness and shape of the granite came to life, changed.
Image Format: Digital Capture - Greater than 9MPImage Crop: Greater than 75% of original