Water nymph. (Patreon)

Yesterday our friend Daniel974 commented that Ania looked like a water nymph, and in today's photo she appears even more like a mythical creature waiting for unaware human victims.
Ania is capable of some funny expressions and she frequently laughs when she goes through the photos on the back screen of the camera, and this is a good example.

The Leica SL2-S was the most used camera during this day, with 979 photos on a total just shy of 1,800.
I used it in conjunction with the  Contax-Zeiss Sonnar T* 85mm f2.8, wide open most of the time, and mounting a new lens hood to avoid the severe flare I experienced in Consonno last year.
Also this time, the lens worked very well with Ania, blurring away background and foreground like in a dream, but keeping sharp and brightly coloured whatever was in focus (check out the moss on the lower part of the picture)

This location was not the usual small room, but extended for hundreds of meters in the background so, even a short telephoto lens with an ordinary 2.8 maximum aperture like this Sonnar, was capable of great results in the bokeh department!

I was shooting so many frames because of the noise coming from the river and (especially) from the crickets on the trees above our heads.
The noise was so loud that not only she was unable to hear the shutter of the camera, but she was also unable to hear me yelling at her to stay still, and she was constantly changing position whilst I was still focusing.
Shooting more frames, even when I was unsure of the focus or composition, was the only way I figured out to solve this problem: even if now I will have to select between more photos, the percentage of success should be higher.
... And they talk about nature been quiet!

Tomorrow I'm going to show you a souvenir photo we wanted to take back from this magic place.

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