Memories of the Water

Μνήμες του Νερού –Διάφανα Κρίνα

It’s been 13 months and a day since the day I got my Nikon D300 in my hands. On that same day I got hold of the filters that at last made it possible for me to start taking long exposure shots. Glimpses of the adventures of that camera and those filters are scattered all over my gallery. Currently my camera counts almost 8,000 shots. Many of them have been deleted almost immediately, others after a while and a lot of the shots that I considered to be good at the time have lost their charm over the months. And there are always those shots I was never able to capture that still pleasantly haunt me.

This is one of the very first images this camera captured and one that never lost its charm over me all this time so I thought it was fitting for such an… anniversary! It was one of my very first experiments in long exposures too and on that day I used both of my filters to see what I would come up with and to see if I could calculate the exposure time correctly.

Hope you like it, wish me another 13 months of happy shootings (for a start! )

This one is dedicated to Maggie, my little *FairyOfLuck for her always bright presence in this site and in the world and for all the luck and joy she brings to everyone around her. Keep shining Maggie!



Location: Location: Agia Markella, Chios island, Greece

<sub>tech stuff

Camera: Nikon D300
Lens: Nikkor 18-200mm @18mm
Aperture: f/11
Shutter Speed: 90 sec
ISO: 200

*filters*
B+W 77E 110 (10 stop ND)
Hoya ND8 (3 stop ND)
Lee 3 stop soft grad ND (0.9)
Lee 1 stop soft grad ND (0.3)</sub>

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