The third face of Nowa Huta in Kraków, perhaps the most surprising to me, is the "natural" one.
It takes about 50 metres of detour from the usual urban area to discover a huge grassy meadow, often frequented by locals to sunbathe and relax. It was so calm and silent my jaw dropped and I couldn't pick it up. The only thing that reminded me I was in one of most populous parts of Kraków was that thermal power plant in the horizon.
My peanut Warsaw brain keeps yapping: how come a housing estate hasn't been built here yet?
Is my small raised bed meadow a 'habitat'? Absolutely.
Ignoring the multitude of tiny flies, aphids and mites and looking just at the medium to large more ornate insects and spiders, the species count grows by at least five a week during the warmer months.
That despite my inattentiveness and their propensity to hide. Many are authentically meadow creatures, common there but not ordinarily in gardens.
The ability of insects to home in on a tiny patch is extraordinary. Though from their perspective it is a vast jungle with many different microclimates.
It acts as a hotel between larger wild patches and as home in its own right. Anyone with a garden can and should do this.
Always wanted to take photos here, of course later in the year and maybe with a telelens on a beautiful evening would make more sense, but hey, nice test. Imagine that mist being of mystic golden light. Happens quite a lot there. :)
Actually even with this crop (around 40% in i guess? on the first one), I find the image staying quite stable. I don't think my previous aps-c camera (80d) would have performed like this.
Here we have a little hill in the far with wind turbines decorating the horizon... i should take another one here once the desert and trees get some color on them. I find the overall colors of this camera interesting. I have altered dynamic and saturation a little bit (+8 each) but tone, (auto) wb and grading is all default. I also have a pano version but thats pretty useless for the internet. :)
One of the first tests outside (different perspective, deers are now in a spot of sunlight!), there was quite some mist evenly distributing the bridge close to sunset sunlight. An interesting test of dynamic range. It's nice to see how the details are pretty stable, like the deers and trees.
X-T30 & XF35MMF1.4 R
RAF, edited
1/125, ISO200, f/8, continuous AF #farmland#grassland#meadow#deers#fuji#xt30#35mm#apsc
One of the first tests outside, there was quite some mist evenly distributing the bridge close to sunset sunlight. An interesting test of dynamic range. It's nice to see how the details are pretty stable, like the deers and trees.
X-T30 & XF35MMF1.4 R
RAF, edited, slightly cropped in foreground to 16:10
1/200, ISO320, f/14, continuous AF #farmland#grassland#meadow#deers#fuji#xt30#35mm#apsc