The idea was to do go shoot a castle in Champvent, Switzerland. It however turned out to be a foggy day with light rain, so I ended up in a forest nearby. Whilst shooting trees with Autumn colors, I ran in to this fairytale landscape. The elves that live here were home. Unfortunately they were in a hurry to be on time for lunch with a few hobbits, so they didn’t have time to wait whilst I was setting up my tripod.
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😀 it is a beautiful scene….wish the elves would have stuck around for a pic! 😀
nice, i like how the attention is taken straight away to these mushrooms.
You can shoot the castle later this one is a beauty hit the plus
naturally clear sight…..
I live where Trolls live!! In Norway..
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Thanks sharaf, peter paul and Peter !
LaDonna Pride: yes, that was a pitty. They were all dressed up as well 😀
Patrick: didn’t spot trolls. Don’t know if they have family in Swiss forests 🙂most welcome.
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Thanks Kerry and Liz 🙂
Beautiful, Johan!
absolutely beautiful!
Great scene…enhanced by the creative introduction. 🙂
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Thanks Bill …. I have my moments of creativity 🙂
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Such a very lovely elfen highrise you found Johan.
This is what you were up to when I was off shooting “the heart of the forest” that I posted yesterday. 🙂- Author
Yep! Told you forests weren’t boring Athena 🙂
@Athena: did he at least introduce you to the elves?????
Haha, good story, and nice shot !
@LaDonna Pride: no – he kept quietly to himself over there while I went tromping off in a different direction looking for the forest’s heart. 😉
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@LaDonna Pride: I tried, but apparently the hobbits were more interesting 😛
@Francis: thank you!
@Athena: winter is next!Johan: I need to buy some raquettes… And maybe some warmer hiking boots. Brand suggestions?
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We were planning to investigate raquettes in the coming weeks Athena. Don’t know the brands yet. Shoes: plenty of options: just got myself a pair of Meindle’s with nice furry insides. Columbia’s are nice as well !
Great story. Wonderful capture. 😀
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Thanks Lisa !
It is “hypholoma sublateritium” not edible!
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Thanks for that info Danilo! I tend to not eat what I find in forests 🙂
What’s wrong with my eyes. I read the title as: Where Elvis lives.”
Mushrooms are delicious. And amazing in how they find organic material and sprout seemingly magical from it.
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Great trick to attract more traffic to the post ejh Ernest 😉
Your little Elves live in a very special block of apartments – love the composition of this shot, the fungi are so placed in your shot that they appear to be looking down on the valley below…:)
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Thanks Beverley! There were several appartment blocks there 🙂 I also shot if from the “front”, but indeed preferred this composition 🙂
Beautiful family 🙂
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Thanks Joanna! Hope all’s well in Barcelona 🙂
Great photo. I wish I had gone with you. The rain sort of discouraged me. I have a ton of mushroom pictures so maybe I’ll post up one later if I can get past all of my more “official” things I have on my plate. AH, a plate, I need to think about that as well.
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Thanks Charles: best time to go shooting for mushrooms now. It is not my specialty but it combines well with walking dog .-)
Good story Johan 🙂 Nearly bought it:) But the photo looks great!
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Thanks Joel! Elves do exist you know. You do too many LE’s … you just won’t see them if the exposure is longer then 10 seconds 😉
I guess you do have a point Johan. Thanks so much for enlightening me:)
Beautiful find here! You never know what you will discover in the forest! Thanks for sharing it.
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Thanks Daniel !
Lovely Johan
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Thanks Johan 🙂
I love it! 🙂
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The story about the elves or the image Yasmin? 😉
Everything is so precious to me… Some of my favorite of favorites photographers in this world (Athena Carey and you … Johan), sweet-gentle and great photographers, plus the fairy story and the picture, what else can I ask for… 🙂
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Thank you Yasmin! It is really nice to hear that … blushing now … I’d/we’d better keep doing stuff like this then 🙂
Awesome shot! Love the composition Johan! 🙂
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Thanks Neil! Glad you like it:-)
Very beautiful photo!
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Thanks Robert !!!
wow, excellent!
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Thanks Dene’ 🙂
I love this one…Mushrooms have always been fascinating to me! 🙂 I’ve been on a painting kick and therefore I see a painting in this…may I attempt to paint something using your photo as reference?
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Would be honored if you do Erica! Would love to see what you make of it, with or without elves 😉
Thank you! I have no idea what timeline I’ll be working with, but I’ll definitely post reference back to you when I post my result.
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Looking forward to it Erica !
The smurfs’ village or Les Schtroumpfs village Christophe would say !
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I didn’t see smurfs this time, only Elves Khrystiane and Christophe 🙂
love the compo
Excellent
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Thanks Pawel and Biplab! Glad you like it!
