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Early morning shot at -20’c, but it was worth it !!

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2 exposures blending, foreground and sky.

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A traveler camping tent on the sand in the night time with the beautiful stars and milky way as shown as the background of this area.

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Mill at Kunkovice, South Moravia Czech Republic

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Música (abrir en nueva pestaña) / Music (Open link in new tab): Mike Oldfield – Jungle Gardenia.

Another traditional dry stone hut (known as “cuco” in the region), in a capture made in the company of my colleagues and fellow photographers Antonio and Isidro, this time near Peñas de San Pedro (Albacete, Spain) and surrounded by spring flowers and weeds, under the moonlight and the stars in the middle of the night 🙂 .
“Cucos” are old traditional and rustic dry stone huts, usually made of more or less circular floor and dome formed by nearness of stone rows and located amidst the vast open fields of La Mancha, where they resemble telluric buildings born from the earth itself, whose original role was to serve as a refuge for shepherds and peasants to shelter from the harsh climate.
They historically follow a remote tradition probably established in Chalcolithic times (tholoi), although the construction of those that we can see today on our fields is relatively recent, from the 18th to mid 20th Centuries. So they have a more etnographic than historical value.

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“Cuco de Peñas de San Pedro (Albacete)”.
Otro cuco más, fotografiado en compañía de mis colegas Antonio e Isidro, en esta ocasión en las cercanías de Peñas de San Pedro (Albacete), en medio de estrellada noche bajo la luz de la luna y en un primaveral florido y silvestre entorno 🙂 .
Los “cucos” son viejas rústicas construcciones tradicionales en piedra, localizados en mitad de los vastos campos manchegos, donde asemejan telúricas construcciones nacidas de la misma tierra, normalmente de planta más o menos circular y rematados en cúpula formada por aproximación de hiladas cuyo cometido era el de servir de refugio a los pastores y trabajadores del campo para resguardarse de los rigores del clima.
Históricamente, continúan una ancestral tradición cuyos orígenes más remotos nos llevan hasta tiempos del Calcolítico (los “tholoi”), si bien la construcción de cuantos hoy en día podemos contemplar diseminados por nuestros campos, es relativamente reciente, desde los que puedan ser más antiguos y remontarse al Siglo XVIII, hasta los más recientes, de mediados del Siglo XX. Atesoran, por tanto, un valor más etnográfico que histórico.

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Another shot of the beautiful mountains of Stokksnes, Vestrahorn. After a long time and second visit the sun finally revealed himself just before it went down. Happy i got this shot with the sun shining on the dunes one more time. I used the bracketing function to create this HDR image to catch all the highlights and shadows into one image. Thanks for visiting!

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