Bled ducks

Jyoti once went to Bled, Slovenia, for work and came back raving about the lake and the castle. Now for a woman who isn't too keen on mountains, this has to be a good sign, so when we were thinking of places to go in the summer of 2002, small baby in tow, Bled featured on the list. It's a town in the Julian Alps, a few kilometres south of the border with Austria. The lake is circular, incredibly picturesque, and just the right size to walk around with a pram in a couple of hours. We'd almost completed the circuit, and were just under the cliff-face at the top of which lurks the castle, when we passed under this overhanging tree. By now the sun was shining brightly and some ducks had taken refuge in the shade. The interaction of the light on the leaves and the startling green colour of the water combined to make a really striking scene.

Details: Minolta X-500, 50mm lens, exposure not recorded. Bled, Slovenia, August 2002. Placemark.