The Flow

This is another wonderful view from the Papigo villages in Northern Greece.
I had visited the place you see in the picture in my first day over Papigo, but the snowfall was so thick that I could even see in front of me. I decided to revisit the place on a different day, so the visit was scheduled for the last day of my stay over there.
I got up really early in the morning, with the hope to maybe catch a nice sunrise as well (never happened though, since the sky was overcast). Since my hopes for a sunrise vanished quickly, I decided to move on and head towards Ovires the location between Megalo Papigo (Big Papigo) and Mikro Papigo (little Papigo).
It was a lovely walk, I really enjoyed since no-one was awake that morning and I had the whole landscape for myself, no people walking around getting in the frame or cars disturbing anything, so my walk lasted a while stopping and moving till I reached the place.
I decided to move a bit inside the river, to get a better view of the flow coming from the distance, it was not that easy since there was plenty of water around and with the combination of snow and ice things where not that pleasant. I was lucky enough to have brought with me my hiking boots which made sure my feet would remain warm…and dry!
Of course as always and according to the Murphy law, something has to go wrong at the time you are doing something fun, so even though no catastrophe met me, I still had to deal with snowfall once I started shooting, luckily I had my Optech rain sleeve with me which I used to cover my camera and continued shooting even if snow was falling.

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Canon 5D
Canon 17-40L f/4
B+W CPL MRC
Aperture: f/16
Shutter: 3.2sec
Focal Length: 35mm
WB: Set through Whibal card
Location: Ovires, Papigo, Epirus, North Greece
Date / Time: 15/2/2010 8:14am