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After many years of dreaming, I finally made it all the way to Patagonia.
The mountains at the end of the world called and they did not disappoint. Rising suddenly with vertical towers to which glaciers still cling to, majestic and temperamental, they stay mostly hidden in the clouds they create for themselves. The fierce winds are also their creation, maybe a way to feel the surrounding landscape with invisible fingers.
But what surprised me the most was the abundance of intense colors everywhere. I don’t even know how I could describe the way the entire sky lights up in the morning in vibrant colors every direction you turn your head to and stays like that for tens of minutes, then disappears, only to come back shortly after, before fading away until the next day. It’s a truly jaw dropping show and, as a photographer, it’s hard to concentrate on one subject.
And the trees... Huge Lenga trees with leaves the size of a fingernail, colored more intense than I have ever seen. This was an adaptation to the fierce winds in Patagonia, but even so, there were many victims. The forests are full of twisted, fallen, dead and rotten trunks, and they transform radically over short distances. You go up on a hill and all the trees are small and twisted by the powerful winds, resembling beautiful bonsai trees. Descend in the immediate valley and they are straight, wide and 30 metres tall. In some other part they are the size of fruit trees, but thinner and wildly shaped. Everywhere among them, fallen trunks and huge rocks. It’s an incredibly beautiful chaos and sometimes difficult to photograph.
A part of my soul remained behind, hanging from these windblown trees, admiring shapes and colors never seen before. And this part left behind is growing with every day spent in cities filled with noise, pollution, haste, anger, hustling, long after hours and other unnatural things.
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#1
Final score:
72points
Doru Oprisan (Submission author) 7 years ago
The show of lights was quite amazing!
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Maggie Dougherty 7 years ago
This photo is just breath taking, to put it mildly! They are glowing, like they are ready, to start the water to boil, that touches them! Dora, I really don't know how you could come back, after seeing this large 96, crayola box of crayon, colors!
Elizabeth Gardner 7 years ago
Burning mountains fabulous; I am a photographer and that is a photographers dream.
Doru Oprisan (Submission author) 7 years ago
Many thanks! It was quite amazing to see.
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Doru Oprisan (Submission author) 7 years ago
Tolkien would have loved this place! :)
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JillVille Child Care 7 years ago
Was there a nice spot for a cottage at this viewpoint? Looks like a good place to watch sunsets all the time :)
Doru Oprisan (Submission author) 7 years ago
It was a bit of a marsh, so not the best place for a building :)
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#2
Final score:
63points
Doru Oprisan (Submission author) 7 years ago
Indeed! Quite hard to believe when you have it in front of you.
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Russell Emmons 7 years ago
Spectacular ! ! -----I want to go & I want to see Tierra Del Feugo also "Del Fin Del Mundo"
Maggie Dougherty 7 years ago
Oh my God, he does fantastic work!!! And for you, to capture all the vastness of color, is fantastic also, Doru!
Just saying 7 years ago
It's amazing that we live on a planet that is both so beautiful and so ugly at the same time.
#3
Final score:
53points
#4
Final score:
53points
Julie Lynn 7 years ago
I actually got my husband to stop working and come and look at this. Absolutely, without a doubt, stunningly phenomenal!!! I haven't seen any more but this one deserves an award! It is AWESOME!!!!!
Maggie Dougherty 7 years ago
Wow, the water is clear, you can see all the pebbles, Look at those mountain in the bottom! Look at those mountains! Wow!!
Elizabeth Gardner 7 years ago
great photo so beautiful and a fabulous reflection so still so beautiful.
#5
Final score:
52points
Suzanne Linch 7 years ago
I would love too paint a couple of your photos ?.Are they enhanced at all please.
Doru Oprisan (Submission author) 7 years ago
Glad they inspire you! They are only edited to show what I saw with my own eyes.
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#6
Final score:
52points
Maggie Dougherty 7 years ago
Look at those mountains!! They are stellar!! <3 I love the clouds at the peaks
#7
Final score:
51points
#8
Final score:
50points
Julie Lynn 7 years ago
It's great you could capture the snow! I've never been able to do that in my novice attempts! Beautiful!
#9
Final score:
44points
Maggie Dougherty 7 years ago
I love what you said about the tree shapes! This one, looks like it belongs in the book I'm reading! All the trees are gnarled, and misshapened! <3
#10
Final score:
39points
Monessa Kelly 7 years ago
this is not chaos... this is beautiful symmetry in the way of Natural Fractals as discovered by Benoit Mandelbrot. If you really look you can see the patterns, from the shape of leaves to the form of the tree to even the spacing of tree roots and the actual shape of the forest. At this point you realize that we are not in Chaos but ordered perfection.
Doru Oprisan (Submission author) 7 years ago
That is probably why we are attracted to these views, without being aware of it.
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And they were dancing quite visibly every time the wind passed by. :)
Load More Replies... Maggie Dougherty 7 years ago
This is simplistic, but this looks to me, like a really great place, to play Hide and Seek! Grab a bunch of my friends, and have a go at it! :D I love this pic, Doru! We could play for days!!
#11
Final score:
39points
Maggie Dougherty 7 years ago
This one looks like a Hurricane, went through here! I love, how it's so desolate!
#12
Final score:
36points
Maggie Dougherty 7 years ago
This one looks like there was once a glacier, on this side with a break in the middle, from the other sides glacier!!
Doru Oprisan (Submission author) 7 years ago
I'm pretty sure the glacier extended until this spot many years/centuries ago.
Load More Replies... Tora Wookiee Macaw 7 years ago
WOW!! One can almost expect a horde of White Walkers to stride into the frame.....
Doru Oprisan (Submission author) 7 years ago
Or a bunch of pumas jumping from a boulder :)
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Maggie Dougherty 7 years ago
Pure magic, poking it' s head through!! I love this one, in it's singularity!! <3
Elizabeth Gardner 7 years ago
This is incredible like some mythical castle rising from the mist.
#14
Final score:
34points
#15
Final score:
34points
Doru Oprisan (Submission author) 7 years ago
And there's a camping right next to it, under the trees on the right.
Load More Replies... Maggie Dougherty 7 years ago
This looks like a Stags antler, resting in the water, waiting to be picked up and looked at!
Doru Oprisan (Submission author) 7 years ago
Now that you mentioned it, it does look like one:) No stags around, though.
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#17
Final score:
34points
JillVille Child Care 7 years ago
Can you spot the Unicorn? This looks like where they would have hung out, hidden amongst the trees. Amazing.
Doru Oprisan (Submission author) 7 years ago
If they were there, I didn't see them :)
Load More Replies... Maggie Dougherty 7 years ago
This one looks like they were waterfalls, in all the cracks and crevices! Can you see it?
Doru Oprisan (Submission author) 7 years ago
Yes, there were a few small waterfalls there :)
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#18
Final score:
33points
Doru Oprisan (Submission author) 7 years ago
Yes, until we saw some puma tracks in the snow near the lake. The silence got a bit creepy after that :)
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32points
Elizabeth Gardner 7 years ago
Another wonderful shot that looks like a beautiful soft blended painting.
#20
Final score:
31points
Doru Oprisan (Submission author) 7 years ago
Yep, the tip of a glacier. There was more of it up in the valley.
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28points
Doru Oprisan (Submission author) 7 years ago
There are just a few small ones, thankfully!
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#22
Final score:
25points
Doru Oprisan (Submission author) 7 years ago
Thanks, Helen! It's one of my favorites!
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#23
Final score:
25points
Martina Třešková 7 years ago
I feel so weird about the fact that I never had an idea that such landscape exists. It looks like out of a pc game!
Doru Oprisan (Submission author) 7 years ago
Way better than a pc game. At least the ones I know, from a decade ago :)
Load More Replies... Julie Lynn 7 years ago
I absolutely adored and appreciate all of these pictures. Thank you for sharing with us! I think that one should win an award or prize, for sure! It does at our house! :) :) Thanks again!
Doru Oprisan (Submission author) 7 years ago
Thanks, Julie! Glad you enjoyed them so much!
Load More Replies... Julie Lynn 7 years ago
To this day my husband and I have an outstanding joke about his "blue down vest!" He is so glad to see they are worn in Argentina too! Beautiful picture!
Doru Oprisan (Submission author) 7 years ago
I wore a "screaming" green one that ruined quite a few shots taken by my friend :)
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Elizabeth Gardner 7 years ago
What a stunning combination, trees in brilliant colours, snow on the ground, a glorious blue sky and a drift of clouds all against the back drop of stunning mountains
Doru Oprisan (Submission author) 7 years ago
April. A bit out of season, many campings were closing, but it was perfect for us.
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What do you think ?
Zori the degu 7 years ago
I've always wanted to go there. Now I'm sure I must include it in my kick-the-bucket list.
4Sunshine 7 years ago
There is an "other worldliness" to many of these pictures. They are exquisite but a challenge to the senses. It seems to be fall and winter at the same time. The bare mountain peaks seem so close to the areas of vegetation. It's stark and still yet the trees are windswept. There's a timelessness here. I think I could look at this landscape and be lost in it and my imagination for a very long time. Thank you Doru Oprisan for sharing this experience.
Fester Sixonesixonethree 7 years ago
Very high end landscape photography! Congratulations on your trip, and your truly beautiful images!
Diane Mackereth 7 years ago
Your pictures speak volumes without saying a word! Thank you so very much for sharing. They're beautiful.
BEN Y NORAH JUST 7 years ago
Absolutely awesome photos! When did you go? Do you have more pics to share?
Zori the degu 7 years ago
I've always wanted to go there. Now I'm sure I must include it in my kick-the-bucket list.
4Sunshine 7 years ago
There is an "other worldliness" to many of these pictures. They are exquisite but a challenge to the senses. It seems to be fall and winter at the same time. The bare mountain peaks seem so close to the areas of vegetation. It's stark and still yet the trees are windswept. There's a timelessness here. I think I could look at this landscape and be lost in it and my imagination for a very long time. Thank you Doru Oprisan for sharing this experience.
Fester Sixonesixonethree 7 years ago
Very high end landscape photography! Congratulations on your trip, and your truly beautiful images!
Diane Mackereth 7 years ago
Your pictures speak volumes without saying a word! Thank you so very much for sharing. They're beautiful.
BEN Y NORAH JUST 7 years ago
Absolutely awesome photos! When did you go? Do you have more pics to share?
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