Bulgarian Stockphotos

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Caption:

Close up of an Iceland Poppy (Papaver nudicaule) and foliage with a sky background.

Description:

This a close up image of an Iceland Poppy growing on my balcony in central Sofia

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Photo Comments:

I don’t believe that Bulgarian Stockphotos should feature only typical Bulgarian imagery.

Obviously Iceland poppies like these flourish in other locations.

Still, every year I go with my wife and son a few times to gather seeds and herbs from the mountains in Bulgaria.

I hasten to add – only when this is quite legal, avoiding the flowers and endangered species.

My son loves to gather seeds, I mostly concetrate on adding to my stock of landscape images.

Growing your own flowers mean that you can control the photography.

For this image I waited for appropriate light and weather when the flowers were open.

I set up my tripod using a 100mm Canon macro lens with mirror lockup and a remote control release with the self timer on.

Obviously the idea here is to avoid camera shake.

Flower pictures are hard to sell but I’ve had some success with these beautiful poppies.

There is a search engine problem, it’s a fact that some people come to my poppies looking for pictures of Iceland.

It’s not easy to avoid false positives like this.

Caption:

Paragliding over the cliffs of Albena.

Description:

Albena is one of Bulgaria’s most famous Black Sea resorts.

Paragliding is a recreational and competitive flying sport.

A paraglider is a free flying foot launched aircraft.

Albena is one of the most famous seaside resorts on the Black Sea coast and is named after a character in a drama by the Bulgarian writer Yordan Yovkov.

Photo Notes:

Early morning on the beach I saw a number of paragliders catching the thermals and flying over the sand.

I realised that they were flying from the cliffs overlooking the beach.

I grabbed my photo bag and went up to the top of the cliff where they were quite close overlooking the sands and the resort of Albena.

As they were moving about, sometimes further, sometimes nearer I felt a zoom lens was the best choice.

I used my Canon 70-300 IS zoom although the gliders were near enough to use the shorter focal lengths.

I tried in many cases to get some back lighting and exploit the clear colours of the gliders and the sky.

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Caption:

Stones of the Stone Forest near Varna, Bulgaria.

Description:

Ancient Carbonate structures of the Stone Forest near Beloslav in Bulgaria.

The mystical stone forest has developed over centuries.

Photo Notes:

For this photo I felt it was important to image the relative sizes of the various stones.

I also wanted to show the texture and form of each stone sharply.

This meant using an appropriate aperture to ensure sufficient depth of field.

For this shot I used the 10-20mm Sigma zoom.

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