Le Repos, by Javier Mosquera

Lost in an alley in the bustling city of Essaouira this bike rested until the next working day. A second of relax in the deep of an ocean of color, light, people and noise.

Technical Info: Nikon D90 | Exposure f3.8 @ 1/10sec | ISO 400 | White Balance: 5880k
Award Winner: Photo of the Day | August 14
Award Score: 70.5 (Value 13.5, Clarity 12.5, Composition 17.5, Style 13, Skill 14)

Title of the photograph: Le Repos
Photo of the Day Award Category: Still Life Photography
Photograph Location: Essaouira | Morocco

Photographer: Javier Mosquera Cid (Ourense, Galicia, Spain)
Javier Mosquera was born in 1978 in Ourense (Galicia, Spain). His beautiful homeland gave him the chance to grow up surrounded by an exuberant nature, astonishing landscapes, and a vast repertory of animals and plants. A few years later, his love and admiration for the natural world led him to obtain a Bs in Marine Biology. In his university years, he began to get in touch with people from different corners of the world, who opened his mind to new cultures and countries, and then the flame of travel began to burn…

In the following years, he had the chance to work as a biologist in amazing places as Azores, Iceland or Amazonia and he began to feel attracted by the possibility of capturing the beauty of those places, the nature, animals, landscapes, people…

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