Name: Gheorghe Popa
Picture title: Yin and Yang
Category: Black and white
Nationality: Romania
Occupation: I’m pharmacist and a nature photographer.
Technical information
Camera: Drone DJI Mavic Pro 2, Camera Hasselblad L1D-20c
Lens: Lens 28mm f/2.8-11
EXIF: f6.3, speed 1/200, iso 100, date created 2.01.2020.
Accessories: No accessories used.
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Gheorghe Popa| Yin and Yang
Name: Gheorghe Popa
Picture title: Yin and Yang
Category: Black and withe
Nationality: Romania
Occupation: I’m pharmacist and a nature photographer.
Technical information
Camera: Drone DJI Mavic Pro 2, Camera Hasselblad L1D-20c
Lens: Lens 28mm f/2.8-11
EXIF: f6.3, speed 1/200, iso 100, date created 2.01.2020.
Accessories: No accessories used.
Gheorghe Popa says:
This is a photo I took in the middle of the day and this is an aerial view of Cuejdel lake in winter before the complete frost of the water. Cuejdel is the largest natural dam in Romania, which is the explanation for these trees.
The idea came up in me during a winter when I observed the lines created by the shades of the trees in the middle of the day over the surface of the lake completely covered with snow. But this time the lake wasn’t completely covered with ice, that allowed me to obtain this Yin and Yang effect.
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.