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River of Gold

"In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth. But the earth was formless and empty. Then God said: Let there be light; and there was light. And ...
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"In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth. But the earth was formless and empty. Then God said: Let there be light; and there was light. And God saw that the light was good'. (The Bible, Genesis 1, 1). ..........................................................................................................................
It is the light what gives consistency and form to the matter. The atoms are practically 100% empty space. The volume occupied by the nucleus plus the volume occupied by the electrons is only 0,0000000000001% (yes, thirteen decimals) of the total volume of any atom. But the photons, as bosons responsible of the electromagnetic interaction, connect internally and continuously the electrons with the nucleus, and also the atoms with other atoms in order to form molecules. The photons act as if they were the cement of the matter. Without light in its interior, there would not be 'solid' atoms and molecules. The matter, the whole universe would be an extremely loose soup of bosons and hadrons with c.0% density. That is, without light, the matter, the earth would be 'formless and empty', as surprisingly states the first sentence of the Bible. Light is not an outside phenomenon: photons are an essential 'internal' component of the matter. Without them it would not be possible any form. Neither the beauty, nor the photography. The matter is literally 'filled' with light. Also at night. To capture it, is all.
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Sunset in Galicia, in the north-west of Spain, in the Atlantic coast, at Bayona bay. Bayona was the first city who had news of the discovery of America by Columbus. Separated by a storm, one of the ships reached Bayona two weeks earlier than Columbus arrived to Lisbon. In Galicia's coast there are plenty of wood platforms like the ones that appear in this shot. They hang ropes from the platforms in order to harvest mussels. The photo was shot with a Canon 70-300f L lens, and was not Photoshopped at all. (File#: 2014-08-04 20.37.33).
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