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This is an old picture taken with an analogic slide film. It was incredibly green grass because I remember that there was a huge rain the whole night, and than an incredibly bright clean day. At that latitude is quite rare, because is raining a lot and very often. So,probably, it was the greenest place I have ever seen. But surely a Fuji Velvia 50 film helped too.... it was a very green film also at that time :) (1992). Actually I use a digital camera, so I do not know how it would be. The original slide is that green... I could correct it with a digital imaging software, but finally I decided to leave it as it is.
Sorry for the late reply. I was traveling. Wow! Are you analyzing my pictures? hehehe. I never noticed that "eye", but you are right. It looks like that. It is funny because I made another picture in Washington D.C., not uploaded here, where an "eye" like that can be seen, but the illusion is generated from the hair on the wind of a person.
ear Sir, I have climbed this mountain over 30 times and also traversed the old slave road over the coll, in both directions. Your photograph is a very poor photoshop fake of a beautiful dry jungle landscape, and the horizontal join, which separates the upper part of the photo with your dayglo green below the rock face of Goat mountain on the right of Le Pouce, is a travesty. In reality the mid-ground below the mountain is a dark green of varigated forest and has dry run off rivers in very rough and rugged terrain. There are thickets of Mango, acacia and other thorn trees and an ancient forest of Silk Cotton trees of the Combretaceae family Your image of tracks and shaped fields visible below the Aloe plants is simply false and a complete fabrication. Sorry but thats the truth of the matter.
If you look on Google earth at the valley behind the suburb of Tranquebar, you are in the valley of Le pouce where this photo purports to be. you can make out the semi circular old slave road which the meanders up the flank between the two mountain. Its a great mountain and wonderful habitat for many remnant creatures of the island including famous Mauritius kestrel, paille-en-que birds and colonies of fruit bats - not sugar cane fields !
Dear Sir, your comment is very interesting for me. I took this photo more than 18 years ago, to be precise on March 1992. For sure there is no photoshop correction from my original Fuji Velvia 50 slide which I still have at home in Italy (I live in Miami now). I have no idea of how that place can look now but at that time that was what I saw during an excursion with a Land Rover inside Domain les Pailles. It would be great if you could check on the place asking someone how it was in 1992 and let me know. I hope I placed it properly on the map, if not, that might explain the difference, but not photoshop. All the best, Raniero
I went on Google Earth. If you use the historical imaginery on the menu on the top (the little watch), the satellite or aerial photos can date back to August 2003. There are also views from 2004 and 2009. In those older photos from 2003 the tracks and shaped fields you mentioned are still a little visible, though in the process to change in the way you can probably see now. In 2010 are practically deleted. So, I hope you believe that in 1992 was like my photo "shows" (and not "shops" :) A lot has changed there since 1992, including the Domaine les Pailles Estate. This said, I do not see the reason why I should have made a fake of a landscape that is surely extremely beautiful as is. All the best
Dear Sir - I was in Mauritius and up le Pouce by 1970 and many times thereafter, it is a place i have excellent first-hand experience of and affection for. There have never been landscaped 'fields' below the mountain as you have pictured this is . If you were there at any time, you would realise it is jungle terrain, a national park even, as from the settlements upwards towards an old ruin of a house and large water reservoir which once supplied the city – the ‘chateau d’eau’, now sadly overgrown.
There is only one horizontal horseshoe shaped track around the flanks of the valley branching off to a single track which leads over the coll. (visible on G-earth and partially on your photo in center shot) It was built by slave labour approx between 1700 and 1750 and was for a significant period the main access road to Moka before the main bridge over the GNW river. The Moka end of the track, on the south side of le pouce, has the road carved into the rock and is clearly visible from Curepipe as a large Z and forms the main ascent route up the mountain from the south side.
I believe you have unintentionally photoshopped the picture to convey a more pastoral impression or to look more natural when in reality over the last 25 years the slum dwellings of Port Louis, the so called ‘Crownlands’ have encroached further up the valley. Even in 1992 many of those shacks would have been 'in shot' from the position your photo was taken. I hope also that you realise that the placement of the photo on GE is in the wrong valley - i.e. Domaine les pailles. More importantly, from the position of the peaks in the photo – the photo can only have been taken from within the valley of le pouce itself. Please reconsider the photo and perhaps compare with others in your stock. Or in Youtube videos of Le Pouce here http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RslFoZZbR48&feature=related at 48 secs.
"This video contains content from MinistryofSound, who has blocked it in your country on copyright grounds" Dear Maita, this is what I read when I try to watch the youtube link that you forwarded to me. Anyhow, I doubt there is someone able to use "unintentionally" a software like photoshop which is already not easy to use also intentionally, and even more difficult to paste unintentionally landscapes from other places. I guess there is no way I can convince you, but the only thing I was using often at that time was a polarizer filter and nothing else. So, if something is not matching could be that I placed the photo in the wrong place, or that I scanned the slide upside down, but this would invert the left and the right, surely not adding or deleting anything. All the best. Raniero
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wow! you gotta be kidding me! no way it's that green!
This is an old picture taken with an analogic slide film. It was incredibly green grass because I remember that there was a huge rain the whole night, and than an incredibly bright clean day. At that latitude is quite rare, because is raining a lot and very often. So,probably, it was the greenest place I have ever seen. But surely a Fuji Velvia 50 film helped too.... it was a very green film also at that time :) (1992). Actually I use a digital camera, so I do not know how it would be. The original slide is that green... I could correct it with a digital imaging software, but finally I decided to leave it as it is.
oh cool. yeah, fujifilm films are greener, i remeber... the texture of analogical photos are so much smoother and warmer than digital... very neat!
omg! i just noticed! there's an eye in the cloud! did you see that? coool
Sorry for the late reply. I was traveling. Wow! Are you analyzing my pictures? hehehe. I never noticed that "eye", but you are right. It looks like that. It is funny because I made another picture in Washington D.C., not uploaded here, where an "eye" like that can be seen, but the illusion is generated from the hair on the wind of a person.
mamma mia!!!!! Che colori fantastici! Sembrano materia calda!!!
ear Sir, I have climbed this mountain over 30 times and also traversed the old slave road over the coll, in both directions. Your photograph is a very poor photoshop fake of a beautiful dry jungle landscape, and the horizontal join, which separates the upper part of the photo with your dayglo green below the rock face of Goat mountain on the right of Le Pouce, is a travesty. In reality the mid-ground below the mountain is a dark green of varigated forest and has dry run off rivers in very rough and rugged terrain. There are thickets of Mango, acacia and other thorn trees and an ancient forest of Silk Cotton trees of the Combretaceae family Your image of tracks and shaped fields visible below the Aloe plants is simply false and a complete fabrication. Sorry but thats the truth of the matter.
If you look on Google earth at the valley behind the suburb of Tranquebar, you are in the valley of Le pouce where this photo purports to be. you can make out the semi circular old slave road which the meanders up the flank between the two mountain. Its a great mountain and wonderful habitat for many remnant creatures of the island including famous Mauritius kestrel, paille-en-que birds and colonies of fruit bats - not sugar cane fields !
Dear Sir, your comment is very interesting for me. I took this photo more than 18 years ago, to be precise on March 1992. For sure there is no photoshop correction from my original Fuji Velvia 50 slide which I still have at home in Italy (I live in Miami now). I have no idea of how that place can look now but at that time that was what I saw during an excursion with a Land Rover inside Domain les Pailles. It would be great if you could check on the place asking someone how it was in 1992 and let me know. I hope I placed it properly on the map, if not, that might explain the difference, but not photoshop. All the best, Raniero
I went on Google Earth. If you use the historical imaginery on the menu on the top (the little watch), the satellite or aerial photos can date back to August 2003. There are also views from 2004 and 2009. In those older photos from 2003 the tracks and shaped fields you mentioned are still a little visible, though in the process to change in the way you can probably see now. In 2010 are practically deleted. So, I hope you believe that in 1992 was like my photo "shows" (and not "shops" :) A lot has changed there since 1992, including the Domaine les Pailles Estate. This said, I do not see the reason why I should have made a fake of a landscape that is surely extremely beautiful as is. All the best
Dear Sir - I was in Mauritius and up le Pouce by 1970 and many times thereafter, it is a place i have excellent first-hand experience of and affection for. There have never been landscaped 'fields' below the mountain as you have pictured this is . If you were there at any time, you would realise it is jungle terrain, a national park even, as from the settlements upwards towards an old ruin of a house and large water reservoir which once supplied the city – the ‘chateau d’eau’, now sadly overgrown.
There is only one horizontal horseshoe shaped track around the flanks of the valley branching off to a single track which leads over the coll. (visible on G-earth and partially on your photo in center shot) It was built by slave labour approx between 1700 and 1750 and was for a significant period the main access road to Moka before the main bridge over the GNW river. The Moka end of the track, on the south side of le pouce, has the road carved into the rock and is clearly visible from Curepipe as a large Z and forms the main ascent route up the mountain from the south side.
I believe you have unintentionally photoshopped the picture to convey a more pastoral impression or to look more natural when in reality over the last 25 years the slum dwellings of Port Louis, the so called ‘Crownlands’ have encroached further up the valley. Even in 1992 many of those shacks would have been 'in shot' from the position your photo was taken. I hope also that you realise that the placement of the photo on GE is in the wrong valley - i.e. Domaine les pailles. More importantly, from the position of the peaks in the photo – the photo can only have been taken from within the valley of le pouce itself. Please reconsider the photo and perhaps compare with others in your stock. Or in Youtube videos of Le Pouce here http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RslFoZZbR48&feature=related at 48 secs.
"This video contains content from MinistryofSound, who has blocked it in your country on copyright grounds" Dear Maita, this is what I read when I try to watch the youtube link that you forwarded to me. Anyhow, I doubt there is someone able to use "unintentionally" a software like photoshop which is already not easy to use also intentionally, and even more difficult to paste unintentionally landscapes from other places. I guess there is no way I can convince you, but the only thing I was using often at that time was a polarizer filter and nothing else. So, if something is not matching could be that I placed the photo in the wrong place, or that I scanned the slide upside down, but this would invert the left and the right, surely not adding or deleting anything. All the best. Raniero
i like it !!!