Supernaut05
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Hi to everyone.
I'm new to this community and I want to share some pics of one of my last dive.
We are in Abruzzo region, Italy, near the city of L'Aquila.
Capodacqua is an artificial lake created in the first years of '900 to ensure water for local farmers. When lake was formed there were two ancient mills, dating back to the Middle Ages, that were submerged by water.
Now there are still about 10 meters depth although over time, especially because of the last great earthquake that hit L'Aquila in 2009, the facilities have accused some collapses.
However the charm of swimming in the midst of the architectural relics is still very charge in emotional.
I recommend it to anyone visiting Italy, and has the possibility, to take a dip.
ATLANTIDE scuola sommozzatori - unico gestore del lago di Capo D'Acqua, The Beginnings,
Pics were taken with a Canon Ixus 750 and its specifically Canon housing.
I was not very enthusiastic about the colors came out, despite the visibility in the lake is the almost excellent and the resolution of the little Canon does not allow excessive improvement work so I decided in post-production to tack on a dramatic black and white, which might give the images a vaguely antique flavor in accord with the dignity of the place and its ancient history. I also liked the idea of depicting divers like real explorers of unknown worlds.
Vignetting introduced together with the 'use of artificial film grain to simulate an old film contrasts particularly with images of divers and their equipment and would almost seem to see some images from "Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea" or some other short story by Verne.
I hope you like them.
More images on my Flickr account at https://flic.kr/s/aHskPHNFmG
I'm new to this community and I want to share some pics of one of my last dive.
We are in Abruzzo region, Italy, near the city of L'Aquila.
Capodacqua is an artificial lake created in the first years of '900 to ensure water for local farmers. When lake was formed there were two ancient mills, dating back to the Middle Ages, that were submerged by water.
Now there are still about 10 meters depth although over time, especially because of the last great earthquake that hit L'Aquila in 2009, the facilities have accused some collapses.
However the charm of swimming in the midst of the architectural relics is still very charge in emotional.
I recommend it to anyone visiting Italy, and has the possibility, to take a dip.
ATLANTIDE scuola sommozzatori - unico gestore del lago di Capo D'Acqua, The Beginnings,
Pics were taken with a Canon Ixus 750 and its specifically Canon housing.
I was not very enthusiastic about the colors came out, despite the visibility in the lake is the almost excellent and the resolution of the little Canon does not allow excessive improvement work so I decided in post-production to tack on a dramatic black and white, which might give the images a vaguely antique flavor in accord with the dignity of the place and its ancient history. I also liked the idea of depicting divers like real explorers of unknown worlds.
Vignetting introduced together with the 'use of artificial film grain to simulate an old film contrasts particularly with images of divers and their equipment and would almost seem to see some images from "Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea" or some other short story by Verne.
I hope you like them.
More images on my Flickr account at https://flic.kr/s/aHskPHNFmG
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