Name: Gheorghe Popa
Picture title: Ice cell
Category: Nature art
Nationality: Romania
Occupation: I’m pharmacist and a nature photographer.
Technical information
Camera: Drone DJI Mavic Pro 2, Camera Hasselblad L1D-20c
Lens: 28mm f/2.8-11
EXIF: f8, speed 1/80, iso 100, date created 13.01.2021.
Accessories: No accessories used
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Gheorghe Popa | Ice cell
Name: Gheorghe Popa
Picture title: Ice cell
Category: Natural art
Nationality: Romania
Occupation: I’m pharmacist and a nature photographer.
Technical information
Camera: Drone DJI Mavic Pro 2, Camera Hasselblad L1D-20c
Lens: 28mm f/2.8-11
EXIF: f8, speed 1/80, iso 100, date created 13.01.2021.
Accessories: No accessories used
Gheorghe Popa says:
Ice cell is one of the images from my 2021 Ice Anatomy project photo series. Ice Anatomy is an aerial serie of photos of the Cuejdel Lake in Romania during the winter when it is completely frozen. The fresh snow and the ice cracks created these shapes that resemble neurons or just cells. My project Ice Anatomy follows the transformations of the ice on the lake over several winters. This is a subject that I have been pursuing for more than two years and I came up with the idea during a winter, when I observed the shapes and cracks appear on the surface of the lake after the process of frosting and defrosting.
About Gheorghe Popa:
Romania
Gheorghe Popa is a pharmacist and a nature photographer by trade. He was born in 1982 in Aiud, a small town from Transylvania (Romania). Popa’s unique ability is his consistency to be meticulously engaged in his long-term projects, with environments and landscapes, often left unnoticed at first glance. His photographs create a monument to unique beauty that lies within untouched nature. Popa’s aim is to bring responsibility and attention to his viewers and encourage them to cherish and protect these environments.
His imaginative photos of Cuejdel and Geamăna lakes gained him widespread recognition and won several international awards such as National Geographic – Nature Photographer of the Year (Mention), GDT – European Wildlife Photographer of the Year (Germany), Monochrome Awards U.S.A., ILPOTY (The International Landscape Photographer of the Year Award – Australia), MontPhoto and Memorial Maria Luisa (Spain), Nature Photographer of the Year (the Netherlands) and “Milvus” Nature Photography Contest (Romania).
His photographs have been published in National Geographic, National Geographic Traveler, Natuurfotografie Magazine (the Netherlands & Belgium and Forum Naturfotografie (Germany).
Popa is the first Romanian photographer who has a photograph displayed at the National Geographic Fine Art Galleries in the USA.