Niccce one. Good contrast between sun and shadows. Just watched Jurassic park 3 yesterday, and looks like there could be few raptors hiding there behind those trees... .n

Man, these little guys you and Antoonio encounter during your walks through the forest do not know anything about disguising..! :P Fantastic nature, and beautiful photos... I find the 1st and the 3rd photos especially beautiful... :)

Fan-tastic pics Punk. All of those, it would be hard to pick a favorite. QUESTION for all of you who knows: Thats just what I want to do with my pics, that glowing "effect" in pic 3. Similar thing can be seen almost every pic in abandoned-places.com. HOW that glow is born? How can that be made? .n

Thank you both, Doruk & Niko, Niko, my dear friend, as far as I know, this is simply caused by the mist/fog that was present towards the end of our walk, as the afternoon grew quite cold. I took this particular shot towards the setting sun, so I can only presume the light was diffracted into the glowing haze that is present in that photo. Early morning and dusk are often the best times to get this effect in my experience. I wish you luck, and wear warm clothing!! (oh...you're used to that) :-)>

sees the forest for the trees... wht a wonderful forest to traispe thru... you kids must have alot of fun ... love the first shot... it just grabbed me for some reason... and the one with the eyeschuckles

It cant be, it just cant. Take a look at these, it can't be fog or dust in every pic(?). http://home2.planetinternet.be/henk/farciennes.htm I'm counting on you Professionals. .n ps. and its not so cold here anymore, I can almost use t-skirt. Almost.

These are beautiful.....love how the light is glowing thru the trees in that 3rd one.

Dear Antoonio, I do not think that you have to do some trick to obtain such an effect... I think it is just the natural end result of shooting in closed (like in abandoned places) or rather closed spaces (like in a forest) towards strong light sources (primary or secondary). When in an abandoned place, the windows are strong light sources when compared to the light readings of the inside; when in a forest, spaces between the trees are the strong light sources likewise... ...When you're NOT AIMING to shoot 'silhouettes' of the window frames or the meshwork of the branches and leaves, and you're AIMING to shoot details around you (but, you still 'have to', or 'purposefully will' include those strongly bright areas), you have to open up the diaphragm of the lens (lower the f value) to obtain the detail that you're looking for in your image. The result of this is that you loose DOF, and also sharpness even for the features that are quite away from you because the bright light that comes from the source(s) falls on the film RATHER SCATTERED, and creates a glowing effect. If you compare shooting the same frame with both a higher and a lower f-stop value, you'd see that with the higher f-stop value (narrower diaphragm opening), you'll have sharper lines/frames/etc. around and against the strong light source. ... ... ... Well, it took so long, but I hope I've understood what you asked and was helpful somehow... :) ... ... ...

Those are very big trees! Beautiful light, great images PC.

That was a good explanation, dourskal! I had the same sort of effect on my windows picture inside the brewery. The light coming in from the outside was overpowering, and there was no inside light, similar to PCs 3rd pic. It almost gave it the feeling of a church. Beautiful place PC, and fine shots too. For some strange reason, I dont usually think of Australia with such dense vegetation.

Really like #1, bright and sunny. And the eyes in (#4?) are perfect. Rebeckky must have giggled! Glowing? With conventional materials, I see this sometimes when shooting into light. Basically lens flair. With the slight overall loss of contrast here that would be my first guess. Affect can be increased with dirty lens; but can happen with clean lens. Internal reflections. Was this digital camera? (I think) there is some effect with CCD's, where bright light can "bleed" into adjacent areas. I don't know the facts, (but the story sounds good...)

The first two are very appealing to me, I think because they remind me strongly of ink-and-wash paintings. I think the blue coloring of the leaves in the background of those shots is (at least possibly) a fringing effect, an aberration possibly related to the bleeding that Misha suggests. I don't know whether or not it would occur with film on overexposure of the adjacent areas this way; it seems to me unlikely, but Alpha would know :-D for sure. In any case it works well within the context of these images, so the reason to understand it is so that you (we) can use it when you (we) want to.

Doruk(and rest of you guys). Thanks for explaining, I tought that it might be something like that. Gotta test it... Phrank, yes you had. Cursed you. Heeey, why dont you post your wonderful pics to abandoned-place.com? There are section for quest photos too. .n

Nice pics, Punky, and some good angles too. Niko - I can concur with the reason for that fogging, I recently got it (albeit in very unwanted circumstances) trying to shoot a motorbike in a pedestrian subway over the weekend. Damn sun just WOULDN'T go away, and I ended up having to abandon the idea.....grrr (",)

Marshall, I agree with Niko, I think Henk (the fellow who has taken all those shots at abandoned places) would be quite interested to see your excellent images. Sue, I'm not sure about the blue, it could be an aberration as you suggested, but some of the vegetation in Australia does have a bit of that blue tinge in the leaves, we even have a "Blue Gum" (one of our Eucalypt species) My wife, who has travelled quite extensively, was always continually amazed at the different "greens" of the vegetation in the different countries she visited. Thanks again all. :-)>