Ponte di Veja, and hills of Verona

[photoni]

The Veja bridge is the largest natural bridge in Europe.

It was formed in the ice age due to the collapse of the lower, more permeable and tender part.
The caves that surround it were inhabited in the Neolithic from 90,000 to 20,000 years ago by hunters and craftsmen who produced flint arrowheads, blades etc. These objects have been exchanged and spread all over europe, up to poland (1500 km)

 

Sony A7 FS - Asahi ST 35mm f8 - 1/25" - 12800iso  - STN575+ZWB1

 

AST 35mm f11 - 1/125" - 100iso - 5 images pasted - Hoya R72

 

AST 35mm f11 - 1/125" - 100iso - 2 images pasted - Hoya R72

 

nearby ... a red marble quarry

AST 35mm f11 - 1/125" - 100iso - 5 images pasted - Hoya R72

 

different wavelengths

 

a modified false color infrared of the hornbeam grove - R72

 

the roots of a millenary walnut R72

 

a green euphorbia - wide open - Asahi ST 35mm f3,5 - 1/60" - 8000iso  - STN575+ZWB1

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[colinbm]

Stunning collection of a stunning site in all lights.

[enricosavazzi]

I hope it is OK to upload some images from the same area (although not exactly the same view) that I visited in the 1960s. Not much has changed in the appearance of the bridge and nearby cave, except that the place was perhaps more overgrown with vegetation when I visited as part of an excursion while reading at Padua University, and the guardrails were obviously rickety and improvised at that time. I remember that at the time the bridge was almost invisible through the trees until one got very close to it, too close to photograph it in its entirety with a "normal" 50 mm objective.

 

The bridge was part of the roof of a large cave, which partly collapsed thousands of years ago, leaving only the bridge and the deepest portion of the cave still "roofed".

 

Scanned a few years ago from rather poor BW negatives.

 

 

[Nate]

Great photos guys, seems like an interesting place to visit with it's history.

[photoni]

3 hours ago, enricosavazzi said:

guardrails were obviously

Very well @enricosavazzi, the guardrails are always made of wood but now they are safe :)

yes your photos are "narrow" the view is lateral. we went all the way down, where there is the source of water and the Paleolithic caves. The most important one with graffiti and a drawing is closed.
Now they have made many marked trails, one of them goes up to the museum with many ancient artifacts.

 

I only had 35mm, the second photo is made with photoshop, I glued 5 vertical shots together, as if it were about 18mm.

[Fandyus]

Nice pictures.

Not to doubt you, but are you sure it's the largest? I'm asking since in my country, we have this. I've been there, and from the pictures, it perhaps seems a bit larger? I don't know. The website claims that this particular gate is the largest.

[Andy Perrin]

Hah, one wonders who cataloged them all and made the determination…

[photoni]

2 hours ago, Fandyus said:

largest?

 

Pravčice Gate is very beautiful ... the dimensions are not a problem if it is the largest or the third, but the distance from home 948 Km :)

 

I went there to find a little cool, at home 35 ° C in the hills 25 ° C.

I slept under the trees in the cool, to the song of a blackbird (like in my house) but also of sounds that I do not recognize.

 

[photoni]

in the hills near a beautiful foggy landscape

 

All with Soligor 35mm f: 11 (the latest f: 3.5)

 

 

[ulf]

Tony,

I really envy your skill of composing images. The compositions are very often so nice!

 

In the sequence above I like the R72 best.

It is also interesting to compare the difference to the haziness of the last UV image

[photoni]

thanks @ulf, very flattered :)
I took 4 shots even with panchromatic film 6x9 , we'll see if the times (1/35 "- 1" -2 "-3") are right

[OlDoinyo]

Interesting how the skyline progressively disappears at shorter wavelengths. It reminded me a little bit of some off my Colorado shots from last summer. It does look as if the lens's sharpness starts to suffer in the ZWB1 frame and detail starts to wash out.

 

The natural bridge reminds me of one near Luray, Virginia which also has a road running atop it.

[colinbm]

Nice examples Toni

[dabateman]

Excellent contrast in the images. Moving down in wavelength is interesting. 

Thank you Toni.

[Nate]

I like these a lot Toni! The difference between the R72 and the UV shots makes it look like a different location.

[photoni]

I have finally finished and developed this 120 roll

6x9 format - fomapan 100 photographic film

Agfa Clack meniscus objective (single lens) f: 11 ~ 1 "

perhaps with orange and blue filter

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[lukaszgryglicki]

Wow 6x9 120 film, goooood old days, I love it!

 

[photoni]

thanks @lukaszgryglicki

I took some Ortho film that should see more then 300 nm,

I will have to do some tests to see how this single meniscus lens works

[Andy Perrin]

These are all very nice.