[Leica] Nathan's PAD 21/2/2021: bicycle ride with art

[rgacpa at gmail.com (Bob Adler)]

Like what you saw, but please keep your eye?s on the road!!

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> On Feb 21, 2021, at 9:27 PM, Nathan Wajsman <photo at frozenlight.eu> 
> wrote:
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> ?I cycled to Jijona yesterday, a moderate ride of about 45 km in total, 
> climbing up to 470 meters where the town is located. The day was strangely 
> hazy, the sun could barely be seen. It turns out that the culprit is not 
> the typical morning haze we sometimes have in the winter, but dust that 
> has been carried up here from the Sahara desert by the southerly winds and 
> is now suspended in the air over us before it falls down and changes the 
> colour of our cars and houses, temporarily. A bit of a nuisance, except 
> that it provided some nice, soft light for my photos this weekend. 
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> At the beginning of the ride, on a rather boring main road, I noticed 
> something that looked like proper street art on the otherwise 
> uninterestingly tagged underpass wall:
> https://www.greatpix.eu/All/Picture-A-Day/i-xKSwwxw/A
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> Once I arrived in Jijona, I discovered to my surprise that the towns 
> famous outdoor nativity scene, which is usually taken down shortly after 
> Three Kings? Day in January, was still on display. I have no idea why it 
> has been left for several additional weeks, must be Covid-related in some 
> way. But no matter; I was happy to be able to shoot some photos of it in 
> this soft light rather than the bright sunshine which is the more usual 
> type of light and which generates harsh shadows and blocked highlights. 
> Three images.
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> The overall setting:
> https://www.greatpix.eu/All/Picture-A-Day/i-GtWjhD3/A
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> The centerpiece:
> https://www.greatpix.eu/All/Picture-A-Day/i-sXLh6VL/A
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> A shepherd. This is one of those images where in bright sun the detail in 
> the sheep tends to disappear:
> https://www.greatpix.eu/All/Picture-A-Day/i-rmjFg9h/A
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> Cheers,
> Nathan
> 
> Nathan Wajsman
> 
> Alicante, Spain
> http://www.frozenlight.eu <http://www.frozenlight.eu/>
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> PICTURE OF THE WEEK: http://www.fotocycle.dk/paws 
> <http://www.fotocycle.dk/paws>Blog: http://nathansmusings.wordpress.com/ 
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> Cycling: http://www.crazyguyonabike.com/belgiangator 
> <http://www.crazyguyonabike.com/belgiangator>
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> YNWA
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> "I?m not arguing, I?m just explaining why I?m right"
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