Bruno Soares ? Landscape Photo

THERE WILL ALWAYS BE LIGHT ▪ ▪ A cold, blue and cosy morning, was what I felt that day when I went for a walk in search of the magnificent beauty of Iceland after a night of rest. I was about to eternalise another moment of landscape photography. The sky, almost clear of clouds, would allow the Arctic's sunlight to bathe this breathtaking nature that accompanied me with each step I took! Life was running smoothly, I thought! A river, which in the middle of a valley, slid on the way to the immense Ocean! A rainbow started to appear next to a waterfall that flowed from the mountain! Everything was beautiful! Looking beyond the eccentric rainbow, that transcendental event with which Mother Nature presents us without warning, I tried to glimpse beyond that waterfall that insisted on hiding what could be there behind. I was intrigued by a cave, I thought only of what could be in its dark core. So, hoping that perhaps the legend of the pot of gold at the end of the rainbow was real, I went, like a child, happily by the river bank! The waterfall was increasing in size, but was its volume and sound that demonstrated its grandeur! On the other hand, the rainbow started to fade as if it didn't want me to touch it. Already behind the waterfall, I felt a shiver, a less cosy cold, an uncomfortable dark, I had entered the cave. Suddenly all that imaginary of an adventure in the dark, in the damp cold, started to look unpleasant. There, in the pitch, I no longer felt happy. Restless thoughts invaded my mind, the world had no future, everything was lost ... It was then when I looked back that I recorded it forever in my memory! "There will always be light, even when we are in the dark!" And that day, she was beautiful, with the Sun forming a star and illuminating that veil of water mesmerising me, quickly bringing me back to happiness! And as a child, I became again!

PERILOUS WAYS ▪ ▪ Already very snuggled by the magnanimous Ocean that bathes them since they were still rocks belonging to the cliff that, in the background, continues to resist, they became softer. Round, of pure beauty, but no less attractive, they stand there, in communion with all that sea! And from there, while they roll around on the ground wrapped in the water, they observe, like me, a single rock on the horizon! We couldn't know for sure if it was coming to land, or if, in the unshakable will of any adventure, it was sailing away! And it was during the moment when I was walking towards those beautiful bold and mossy rocks, that I also realized that not all paths that seem calm are in reality. Slippery, they made every step of mine a conscious decision where, every time I took my eyes off them, I quickly found myself in trouble! In our journey, which is life, we find paths that seem more accessible or more comfortable, but which are sometimes surprisingly slippery!

|| WORSHIP || ▪︎ ▪︎ A beautifully colourful sunset, then, the sky clears. Why? I know why!! The majestic Milky Way is coming! But then, I looked, wait I think, what? Are the sunflowers worshipping this scenery? They are!! I did it as well!!!!!

EMBRACING NATURE ▪ ▪ I wanted to touch them, pick them up and bring these gentle and beautiful flowers with me so that I could admire them forever! With a transcendent beauty, they hypnotized me, tempted me, I couldn't resist much more, until ... I heard they were trying to tell me something. I approached, and then I listened. Sit down, they said, relax a little and look around you at all this wondrous beauty that we have before us. We understand that you think we are beautiful, but we will be nothing without what surrounds us in nature! And while in the background the magnanimous Ursa rock and his companion Gigante were watching us, I realized. These beautiful flowers were right, and when I got up again to return, I felt it. I did not touch them, I did not remove them from their natural place, but I brought them with me, but inside me, in my heart. And so I can admire them forever! ▪︎ TECHNICAL DETAILS: ▪︎ Focus stack of 4 photos all at ? @fujifilmxpt X-T3 + XF10-24mm at 12mm with Manual Focus ? Filters @nisi_iberia : GND 3 Stops Medium ? Tripod: @gitzoinspires Systematic ▪︎1st and 2nd photo ? Aperture: f8; ISO: 160; Exposure: 1/45 sec ▪︎3rd and 4th photo ? Aperture: f8; ISO: 160; Exposure: 1/4 sec

OLD SUN ▪︎ ▪︎ Seated next to the tree, there I was, resting from an already long day! As I was refreshing, the Sun kept bathing these ancient Tis (ocotea foetens) grove, lending it its beautiful colours! Then, the mighty Sun showed to me just behind this century tree with all its power reminding me that he is the most wonderful Star! ▪︎ ▪︎ ▪︎ ▪︎ ▪︎ ? @fujifilmxpt X-T2 + XF10-24mm at 10mm with Manual Focus ? Aperture: f18; ISO: 200; Exposure: 1/13 sec ? Filters @nisi_iberia : CPL ? Tripod: @gitzoinspires Systematic

MEANDER TO A DESTINY > > Having just one life means that we have only one opportunity to live it! Nevertheless we, humans, tend to think that things are not like that. The truth is that we leave like we're immortals and we do it in a very selfish way. But, the paradox is, that when it comes to taking care of the only planet that we have today we, humans, really do it like if we are mortals!! We just don't care about tomorrow! So, how about to do it the other way??! Maybe if we take more care of our beautiful world, and at the same time take the only opportunity of leaving our life by living it, we can feel immortals too! Just saying, maybe!