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

[Don Dory]

I appreciate the art highlight on public art.  The close up on the creche
was enlightening.

On Sun, Feb 21, 2021 at 11:27 PM Nathan Wajsman <photo at frozenlight.eu>
wrote:

> 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.
>
> 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
>
> Cheers,
> Nathan
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> Nathan Wajsman
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> Alicante, Spain
> http://www.frozenlight.eu <http://www.frozenlight.eu/>
> http:// <http://www.greatpix.eu/>www.greatpix.eu
> 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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Don
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