A44_7951

Colorful dreams
Like the summit of a mountain, the climb of the Brazil nut tree (Bertholletia excelsa) attracts humans to the queen’s crown. It is a conquest that involves a great challenge to gravity. There is excitement in it, balanced by the cold calculation of safety. Climbing equipment and techniques are planned like the flight plan of an aircraft: everything needs to be defined before takeoff. That same excitement of conquest fills all cells, breaking all barriers of everyday life, and the blood circulates freely and boiling in the climber’s body. A well-planned rope climb tempered with the serenity of experience is qualified not by the adrenaline of a radical practice but by the peaceful exercise of contemplation, especially when it happens in a tropical forest in its full splendor.
More than adrenaline, the climber experiences the effect of serotonin, the neurotransmitter hormone of happiness, a state of prolonged euphoria in a night of deep rest and colorful dreams.

A44_7951 – Leonide Principe
Equipment: NIKON D2X with lens AF-S VR Zoom-Nikkor 70-200mm f/2.8G IF-ED set at 86 mm – Exposition: ISO: 100 – Aperture: 4 – Shutter: 1/60 – Program: Normal – Exp. Comp.: -1.3,
Original digital capture of a real life scene –
Original file size: 4320px x 2868px
Location: Abra144 (Presidente Figueiredo – Amazonas Brazil)
Date: June 5, 2007 – Time: 5:32:42 PM
Collection: Treeclimbing – Persons shown: climber
Keywords:
escalada em árvores, Recreational Tree Climbing, treeclimbing, ecoturismo, ecotourism, TURISMO, TOURISM, castanheira, Bertholletia excelsa, Brazil Nut tree, árvore emergente, big trees, emergent tree, árvores, trees, FLORA, plantas, plants, Abra144, Presidente Figueiredo, Amazonas, Amazônia, Amazon, Amazonian, Brazil, Brasil, Brazilian, América do Sul, South America
EN1 Brazil nut tree climbing A44_7951
PT1 Escalada da castanheira A44_7951
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A44_7943

Vertical Brazil nut tree
Vertical framing is almost always a necessity in tree climbing shots, as verticality is already intrinsically expressed in the action that is intended to be illustrated. The cover image opens horizontally because it wants to show the landscape, the forest is the protagonist that shares the scene with the Brazil nut tree and the climber. This vertical image instead focuses more on the tree and the action that is shown on top of it. The tree completely occupies the frame.

A44_7943 – Leonide Principe
Equipment: NIKON D2X with lens AF-S VR Zoom-Nikkor 70-200mm f/2.8G IF-ED set at 140 mm – Exposition: ISO: 100 – Aperture: 4 – Shutter: 1/60 – Program: Normal – Exp. Comp.: -1.0,
Original digital capture of a real life scene –
Original file size: 2868px x 4320px
Location: Abra144 (Presidente Figueiredo – Amazonas Brazil)
Date: June 5, 2007 – Time: 5:29:27 PM
Collection: Treeclimbing – Persons shown: climber
Keywords:
escalada em árvores, Recreational Tree Climbing, treeclimbing, ecoturismo, ecotourism, TURISMO, TOURISM, castanheira, Bertholletia excelsa, Brazil Nut tree, árvore emergente, big trees, emergent tree, árvores, trees, FLORA, plantas, plants, Abra144, Presidente Figueiredo, Amazonas, Amazônia, Amazon, Amazonian, Brazil, Brasil, Brazilian, América do Sul, South America
EN2 Vertical Brazil nut tree A44_7943
PT2 Castanheira vertical A44_7943
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A44_7952

True Cover
In this third photograph, the framing evolves into the golden ratio and leaves a space on the left for the text of a possible magazine cover. And it was with this important function that it was used by an English cosmetics company. And of course, it was with this purpose that the image was constructed. There is a fundamental detail in the relationship between the stock photographer and his client. What the client desires must be kept in high consideration, especially if that request cannot be fulfilled. This request goes directly into the production line and seeks an opportunity to enter the archive. When the printed paper magazine was the unquestionable dominant form of mass consumption reading, these glorious publications were on every street corner newsstand. The study of magazine covers and layouts like the National Geographic (from the United States), Geo from Germany (Germany), Terra from Brazil, Ícaro (Varig’s in-flight magazine), and so many others that flourished at that time, was a weekly and monthly routine for the nature photographer.
And so, the true cover is presented discreetly at the end of this article to the persistent reader who nurtures the idea of a more refined photograph.

A44_7952 – Leonide Principe
Equipment: NIKON D2X with lens AF-S VR Zoom-Nikkor 70-200mm f/2.8G IF-ED set at 200 mm – Exposition: ISO: 100 – Aperture: 4 – Shutter: 1/60 – Program: Normal – Exp. Comp.: -1.3,
Original digital capture of a real life scene –
Original file size: 4320px x 2868px
Location: Abra144 (Presidente Figueiredo – Amazonas Brazil)
Date: June 5, 2007 – Time: 5:33:12 PM
Collection: Treeclimbing – Persons shown: climber
Keywords:
escalada em árvores, Recreational Tree Climbing, treeclimbing, ecoturismo, ecotourism, TURISMO, TOURISM, castanheira, Bertholletia excelsa, Brazil Nut tree, árvore emergente, big trees, emergent tree, árvores, trees, FLORA, plantas, plants, Abra144, Presidente Figueiredo, Amazonas, Amazônia, Amazon, Amazonian, Brazil, Brasil, Brazilian, América do Sul, South America
EN3 True cover A44_7952
PT3 Capa verdadeira A44_7952
© – Leonide Principe, all right reserved
www.leonideprincipe.site