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White Peacock

Canon EOS 450D

settings

Aperture f/18.0 ISO 1600 Shutter 1/1000

upload_date

Sep, 2014

Views

854

Likes

+56

Awards

Lucky 3 Award

Staff Winter Selection 2015

Superb Composition

+17

Top Choice

+10

Outstanding Creativity

Absolute Masterpiece

Peer Award

Magnificent Capture

Great Find

Exceptional Contrast

Emotions

Impressed

Behind The Lens

Location

In June 2014 I decided to go on vacation to the French Riviera, Italian and Switzerland. We left Stresa to visit Isola Bella. Isola Bella is one of the Borromean Islands of Lago Maggiore in north Italy. The island is situated in the Borromean Gulf 400 metres from the lakeside town of Stresa. Isola Bella is 320 metres long by 400 metres wide and is divided between the Palace, its Italianate garden, and a small fishing village. Until 1632 the island - known only as l’isola inferiore or isola di sotto - was a rocky crag occupied by a tiny fishing village: but that year Carlo III of the influential House of Borromeo began the construction of a palazzo dedicated to his wife, Isabella D'Adda from whom the island takes its name. He entrusted the works to the Milanese Angelo Crivelli, who was also to be responsible for the planning the gardens. It is in the gardens that we find beautiful flowers, trees and birds highlighting the peacocks. In Portugal the white peacock is not very usual. The peacock that I photographed was in one of the high points of the palace and I would like to have him photograph with the feathers in all its splendour but he was not there to do me this kindness and this was the only form that I found more correct to publish in View Bug although two more of his three photos. By chance the weather was gravy and rainy so the contrast with the sky is diminished. It could have been a good photo...

Time

In the morning.

Lighting

The weather is gray and rainy

Equipment

Canon EOS 450D, lens 18/200

Inspiration

I expected him to open the fan. White peacoks in Portugal are not very usual.

Editing

In my camera bag

Now I have a Canon 7D Mark II a little Sony and a smartphone

Feedback

Go with good weather and lots of time! :D

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