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Name: MIQUEL ANGEL ARTÚS ILLANA
Picture title: Natural colors and reliefs
Category: Nature Art
Nationality:
 Spain
Occupation: I have another occupation, so I am not a full-time photographer

Technical information
Camera: Nikon D-5
Lens: Nikon D5 + Nikon 300 f4
EXIF: 1/640 sec at f/11 ISO 400

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MIQUEL ANGEL ARTÚS ILLANA | Natural colors and reliefs

Name: MIQUEL ANGEL ARTÚS ILLANA
Picture title: Natural colors and reliefs
Category: Nature Art
Nationality:
 Spain
Occupation: I have another occupation, so I am not a full-time photographer

Technical information
Camera: Nikon D-5
Lens: Nikon D5 + Nikon 300 f4
EXIF: 1/640 sec at f/11 ISO 400

MIQUEL ANGEL ARTÚS ILLANA​ says:

The image is a small example of the colors and reliefs that can be observed on all the slopes and mountains of the Puna, a large territory located more than 3,500 meters high in the North of Argentina, in the province of Jujui. The minerals of its mountains together with the native vegetation make it possible to observe incredibly beautiful colors and shapes. The image was taken in Puna de Atacama-Jujui-Argentina, where for ten days I toured its spectacular mountains. 

I made the trip only with a single camera and a single lens (Nikon D5- Nikon 300 f4) trying to make my movement the zoom that I did not have. I also dispensed with the blue sky in 90% of my photographs, because what I wanted to capture above all were shapes and colors and reliefs.

 

MIQUEL ANGEL ARTÚS ILLANA

MIQUEL ANGEL ARTÚS ILLANA

Spain

I was born in Barcelona in 1958. I started in the world of photography very young. When I was 17 I studied analog photography for three years at an academy in Barcelona. Since my passion for nature had already awakened, photography was the way to preserve what I had seen on my weekend trips to the mountains. Life took me to Tossa de Mar, a beautiful town on the Costa Brava de Catalunya where I have lived for more than 40 years. For a very long period, my professional and family projects took me away from nature photography, although not from photography.

In 2010 I resumed this great hobby by starting a project in the town of Tossa de Mar that allowed me to obtain various and very renowned awards. That was the beginning of a short but intense trajectory in the years that followed until today. Together with my wife (also an amateur in photography), I try to travel as far as possible to places that are far away from me, especially cold places where Nature in all its spheres is the protagonist, although I also love Africa. This has allowed me to know such incredible places as many corners of Canada, Alaska, Yellowstone and other parks in the US, Northern Norway, Iceland, Svalbard, Falkland Islands, Puna de Atacama, Hokkaido, Poland, Tanzania, etc. And photograph many and varied species of animals, as well as incredible landscapes. For more than four years I have combined my usual work (the one that provides me with income) with that of professional photography.

 

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