Navel of the world [explored on 2022/06/27]

I have recently tried a sunrise session, which turned out to be one of the most thoroughly unsuccesful ones I have ever had. Sigh. It was a gray, flat, sunrise, merely recognisable as increasing levels of flat greyness. I wandered the countryside hopelessly, trying to enjoy the moment - well, somehow. At last I found myself at the farmstead called Il castelletto (= the little castle). Near the farmstead there is a small woodland and nestled within its shadows there is a spring - a survivor, one of the many springs that once upon a time used to gush from the ground as soon as you dig a hole or stick a pipe into the ground. Such is the nature of this stretch of the Padan plain, where the high and the low plain meet, and the underground waters come so close to ground level. I was curious about the Castelletto spring - would it be gushing as joyfully as ever in this draught time? Yes, it was faithfully gushing out of its pipes, spraying clear water all around, and the green shadows under the canopy of trees that shield it from the heat of the day were so enticing... For a fleeting moment it felt like being at the navel of the world. I set up my gear and tried to capture the simple, quiet beauty of the place. The actual spring is some twenty metres behind the camera, but I was interested in the wooden deck that, in happier times, used to allow classes and families to explore the place, to the children's delight. It looks a bit forlorn and badly in need of maintenace, but its curvy path still feels great. I knew that I would have had a hard time in cloning out some orange safety net, and I have painstakingly had it, and that's it folks... Hope that you have a nice Sunday!

Explored on 2022/06/27 nr. 71

I have processed this picture by blending an exposure bracketing [-2.0/-1.0/0/+1.0/+2.0 EV] by luminosity masks with the Gimp (EXIF data, as usual, refer to the "normal" exposure shot).
Along the journey - post-processing always is a journey of discovery to me - I tried the inverted RGB blue channel technique described by Boris Hajdukovic to give a slight tonal boost to several parts of the scene. As usual, I gave the finishing touches with Nik Color Efex Pro 4. For those who are wondering about those sunrays pouring from the canopy in such a grey morning... well, they are a little addition of mine - the light was so unsatisfactory that I have allowed myself a little bit of poetic licence.
Raw files processed with Darktable.

Taken in: Italy / Lombardy / Rodano / Pobbiano (show map)

Taken on: June 3, 2022

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Camera: Nikon D750, f/13.0, 5 sec, 14mm, ISO 100 (more info) (hide info)

Camera:	Nikon D750
Aperture:	f/13.0
Exposure Time:	5
Focal Length:	14mm
ISO:	100
Exposure Bias:	0 EV
Flash:	Off, Did not fire
Exposure Program:	Aperture-priority AE
Exposure Mode:	Auto
Metering Mode:	Multi-segment
White Balance:	Auto
Color Space:	sRGB
Software:	GIMP 2.10.30
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