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Published: 2018-07-26 08:09:36 +0000 UTC; Views: 2959; Favourites: 50; Downloads: 12
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Part of my photo series I did during my holidays on La Gomera in June/July 2018.
I want to share a bit of the wondrous landscape that this unique island has with you. Through the extreme isolation many of the plants and animals on La Gomera are endemic and can thus be not found anywhere else on this world like that.
Enjoy!
Concerning the photography:
1) done with a simple, crappy 10 year old smartphone a friend of mine lend me.
2) just added signature and uploaded it. no postediting, cropping, rotation nor whatsoever done on it. I shot it the way I wanted it to be. or at least I gave my best to do so, as through the extreme brightness of the sun down there the display of the smartphone was an the verge to pitchblack. so taking the pictures was a mixture of "hoping and guessing" that the lense catches what I intend it to catch. just back in the hotel at night I was able to see and check at all how the pictures have become.
3) all pictures lack the "veil of desert/dust/heat/southern sun brightness" that was there in reality (and something which the cam "fancyfied away" with its automatic postediting). the bright passages on the pictures would need some "pale glowing" effect, as the amount of sun was so extreme down there in the south, that it burnt in the eye when you tried to look at them without sun glasses longer than 5-10 seconds.
- Nox
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Comments: 13
thank you <3 I'm glad you like it as much as I did ^__^
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I'm sorry for kind of ruining this, but you seriously shouldn't make these. I've been to the tropical island curaçoa, and you seriously can't see any natural place without these. It's littarally killing the birds there because they can't nest anymore
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it's been my first trip to the south 
from aesthetic and spiritual point I find them fascinating.
in which way aren't they able to nest anymore? because less loose stone around?
at least down there I saw like maybe 10-20 stone formations of that kind during my whole holiday, and vast, vast areas with plenty loose stone without any. I doubt birds have issues finding some to nest
la gomera is very abandoned from people, that's why I went there for holidays
besides I would rather guess most animals were in the humid, tropical forest in the centre of the island (which I avoided) or somewhere else but not in the so hot/dire south area where I stayed (as I sought that sort of climate+landscape).
although there WAS an area of a mountain in my area where suddenly a little swarm of birds was flying around, singing and whatsoever. still need to look up what was going on with them, what kind of birds it was and how the survived that dire climate. I find it very fascinating how life finds its way under extreme circumstances
are you somehow involved into ornithology?
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Well I'm not a bird scientist, but on this tropical island (so not where you were) you couldn't see any nature that still looked natural because there wasn't a square meter without at least one or more of these things. And most of these aren't made by natives, but by people who think they find inner peace by making them
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okay - wow that sounds a bit like some touristic areas have grave issues with visitors ^^'' in such case I can understand that you're annoyed by it XD
but as I said, in La Gomera there was like one ever 5 km 
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Welp, i guess it's a little worse on the Dutch Antilles
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No clue about such stuff XD just started travelling last year at all :')
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I went there with my dad, it's an island group between North and South America
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It's still part of the Dutch kingdom, thus: "dutch antilles". Aka: ABC-islands, Aruba, Bonaire, and Curacao
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Despite that it's a very beautiful picture though
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