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Published: 2012-03-21 15:17:55 +0000 UTC; Views: 542; Favourites: 31; Downloads: 13
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Somewhere South of ElblΔ g, Poland.This area used to be called "HollΓ€ndisches Preussen" (Dutch Prussia) when it was still German, but after the Polish took over in 1945, they didn't like that name - fair enough - and gave it another name that I can't remember and bears no relation to the old one.
Originally this was marshland, but it was drained and turned into farmland by Dutch people in the 16th Century. Not only it's a very flat landscape, the farms look very Dutch too - and totally unlike the Polish and Prussian ones in the areas around it.
Not HDR or tonemapping or whatever other digital drama. Just a little bit of highlight correction and curves. It's from the time when I wasn't shooting RAW yet.
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I tried to find out anything about this place, because i wanted to tell you the name, unfortunately I couldn't find anything... Don't know why am I writing this, but what hell - at least you know that i tried..
BTW - great shot. It's good to see that you're still in shape Eric. 
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Heheheh, thanks anyway, Kuba!
I've been to Cracow, and I loved it! 
When I'll return to Poland, I hope to visit it again, and shoot a lot more pictures.
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Please do! I'm curious, how my beloved city will look like on your pictures.
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Great work.
YouΒ΄re gonna laugh, but later IΒ΄ll prove to you that it looks like IΒ΄m in the back of my house. Where there are more 3 or 4 storks. But not that mesmerizing sky.
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It was our stork summer.
I'd love to be convinced!
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It was a rather candid situation. The stork was interested in my 350D (which was rather new at the time). The swallows (both European and African) don't have a very interesting birdsong, but their behaviour is to compensate for this by forming musical themes on telephone wires. (This could be a passable start for a Beethoven piano sonata.)
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So what language did you have to use to talk to the birds to pose for you?
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It was a rather candid situation. The stork was interested in my 350D (which was rather new at the time). The swallows (both European and African) don't have a very interesting birdsong, but their behaviour is to compensate for this by forming musical themes on telephone wires. (This could be a passable start for a Beethoven piano sonata.)
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Yes, a sonata... or a movie!
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You mean, this mad invention that requires people to shoot 30 photos in a second? 
Still, you have just given me an idea...
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Damn. 30 images a second, what a nightmare (even if I love the result!)
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Wow! Great composition and very dramatic sky! I love it!
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Het was bijzonder om daar te zijn, HollΓ€ndisches Preussen heeft een beetje een 17de-eeuws landschap op sommige plekken. We hebben stiekem (weer) plannen om weer te gaan, maar het is pas zeker als we wegrijden, het zijn ongewisse tijden.
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Good back story and very balanced frame Eric
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Thanks a lot for your comment, Jonathan!
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great info.
resting birds. without them, I thought that there is strong wind because of those clouds...
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Thank you.
Yes, I just checked the other pictures from the series and there can't have been much wind, or the storks would have been much less at ease.
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yeah, I try to remember how to say in english that bird and I was lazy to find out. yes, stork.
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I'd like to have a bit of Deutsches Holland somewhere close, where you can have decent beer (in decent sizes), decent people, CΓΌrrywurst mit Pommes, and decent food.
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... an cholesterol reducing tablets for free ...
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Thank you! I guess they were what made me postwork and post this one.
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