Clearing With A Rainbow over KULA ZEČEVO

            ► █░▓    YET ANOTHER of those mythical places in Dalmatia that bear mythical traces of some very real things from the past. The ruins of this medieval tower treasure a rich story and a legend which has been - just as the ruin itself - heavily neglected in the blindly self-centered communist times. The last three decades have obviously brought scarce improvement. Instead of a thorough restoration treatment, or at least some attention by the authorities, the tower has gotten close competition of a pesky cell phone network antenna and its installation.

This is a land where heaven obviously opens up and talks to the ground. And I have witnessed it. More than a year after this visit, it haunts me in my dreams. 

Underexposed ⅔ of a stop. Developed from raw in Affinity Photo 1.10.6 applying Haze Removal filter. This filter does work miracles on the more distant objects and details affected by perspective hue, but it also colors grey clouds and grey sky into blue, which is wrong. The clouds here were rather grayish as it rained a lot that day. In-between the rainy periods I caught this site from the local road. The rainbow starting from (or ending at) the top of this remarkable hill bears a popular belief of marking the spot where a treasure has been buried. 
Back in the car, just a minute later the impressive rainbow closed the whole circle over sky. But Zečevo hill was already behind us.
-Oddly, the s.o.o.c. jpeg is much sharper but lacks refinement so I chose the raw file for this edit. I refrained from too much sharpening of this raw edit as it gives a cheap effect. The Olympus 12-40mm f/2.8 pro kit zoom is consistently sharp with nice colors, reliable performance at all focal lengths, a relief indeed after all other kit zooms I have used. Except for Pana Leica 12-60mm which I have barely used. I do miss 60mm a lot. Also I have now attention for the 75mm angle of view because of the remarkable Oly prime, and I know now I need it much more often than I expected to.

ꒌ   КУЛА ЗЕЧЕВО, запостављени остаци средњевековне народне прошлости у чудесном крају Буковице, Далматинска Загора. Ту је по предању страдао Вук Мандушић. Чак и дуга показује где је „закопано благо“. Aли уместо заштићеног и обновљеног археолошког бисера много реалнијег од наводних краљева, никла је антена за мобилну телефонију.

Кишни почетак децембра је рај за фотографију у Буковици. Ниски облаци су производ мешања морског и континенталног  ваздуха. Али призори се мењају веома брзо. Ово је снимљено са пута Ђеврске - Кистање. Убрзо после тога дуга је затворила цео полукруг на небу, али кула Зечево већ је остала иза нас...

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File name: P1003048-edit_kula-Zečevo•Đevrske_mh©2022-12-06_№4-from-RAW

Taken in: Croatia / Šibensko-Kninska Županija / Varivode (show map)

Taken on: December 6, 2022

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Lens:	OLYMPUS M.12-40mm F2.8
Aperture:	f/3.2
Exposure Time:	0.001 sec (1/1000)
Focal Length:	40mm (35mm equivalent: 80mm)
ISO:	200
Exposure Bias:	-0.66 EV
Flash:	Off, Did not fire
Exposure Program:	Aperture-priority AE
Exposure Mode:	Auto
Metering Mode:	Multi-segment
White Balance:	Auto
Gain Control:	Low gain up
Color Space:	sRGB
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