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A special roundabout 

    Few days ago, while I was driving by to run an errand, I made a very pleasant discovery not far from my house: in spring, for a fortnight, an ordinary traffic divider in the center of a roundabout, on the edge of Milan's central area, unexpectedly transforms itself into a very lively meadow, populated by thousands and thousands of brightly colored country flowers

As I often do, I collected the most interesting  photos in this Google Foto album

    It was a real attraction for those who, like me, are always looking for photographic ideas... at that moment I didn't have any equipment with me and I also was in a hurry, but as soon as I had the chance (this morning) I didn't miss to visit this place^(*) (this time, however, carrying all what was needed for shooting it), an unexpected "city preview" of what the countryside offers, but only many kilometers further out

^(*) the flowerbed is in Piazza Monte Titano, just beyond the railway underpass, in the Lambrate district

    Of course, this beautiful flowerbed certainly did not arise spontaneously: a brief search on the net revealed to me that since 2015 this area, up until then kept as a green meadow, was chosen for an experiment conducted by a gardening company in agreement with the Municipality of Milan: in fact, it was sown with a particular blend of flowery meadow seeds not to be mowed, with the aim of reducing maintenance without losing its aesthetic quality

Technichal notes

To take these shots I used the Olympus OM-D E-M5 Mk.II camera body with the following lenses:

• • Zuiko 12-40mm f/2.8 PRO (a versatile "standard zoom")
  • Zuiko 75mm f/1.8 (the last - and very fast - lens that I recently added to my set)

I eventually performed some postprocessing using Photoshop, as usual

      (Ivan – May 2nd, 2023)

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