Bota Dorin Photography

01/06/2026

🌆 "The City Beneath the Fire" 🌆

Cities are often photographed for their buildings.
But every now and then, it's the sky that steals the scene.
As the sun disappeared beyond the horizon, the clouds ignited above Canary Wharf, turning glass and steel into little more than silhouettes beneath a sky that seemed determined to burn a little longer.
Moments like this never last. Maybe that's why they stay with us.

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Gear Used
📷 Camera: Nikon D780
🔍 Lens: Tokina ATX-i 17–35mm F4 FF
🎛️ Filter: Lee Super Stopper

28/05/2026

24/05/2026

⛰️ **Beneath Moving Skies** ⛰️

The clouds came low over Tryfan, trailing mist across the slopes like something ancient waking up. Llyn Ogwen lay still beneath it all — indifferent, patient. The moorland burned gold and rust in the autumn light, and for a moment, the valley felt like it belonged to no particular time.

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**Gear Used**
📷 Camera: Nikon D780
🔍 Lens: Tokina ATX-i 17–35mm F4 FF

11/05/2026

🏔️ Where Mountains Disappear 🏔️

The weather never settled.
Clouds moved through the valley like waves, hiding and revealing the mountains for only a few seconds at a time.

One moment everything was there.
The next moment… gone.

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Gear Used
📷 Camera: Nikon D780
🔍 Lens: Tokina ATX-i 17–35mm F4 FF

11/03/2026

🌊🏛 “Standing Between Winds” 🏛🌊

Some places feel like they were built to watch time pass.

Perched above the cliffs, this old lighthouse has seen storms roll in, skies clear, and tides rise and fall for generations. Its walls carry the marks of weather and salt, but its purpose remains unchanged.

There is something reassuring about structures like this —
steady, solitary, and patient.

The clouds drift.
The sea moves.
But the tower stands exactly where it always has, quietly guarding the horizon.

Long exposure softened the sky, turning the passing clouds into motion while the lighthouse remains still — a reminder that permanence often lives beside movement.

📷 Captured with Nikon D780 — isolating the structure against a flowing sky to emphasise form and solitude.

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Gear Used
📷 Camera: Nikon D780
🔍 Lens: Nikon AF-S VR 70–200mm f/4G

15/01/2026

🌊🟢 “Where Time Pauses to Breathe” 🟢🌊

Standing between water and sky,
this silent figure feels less like a sculpture
and more like a thought left behind.
Waves pass, light changes, moments drift —
yet it remains, calm and unhurried,
as if reminding us that stillness
is sometimes the strongest form of presence.

📷 Captured with Nikon D780 — exploring patience, balance, and quiet distance.

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Gear Used
📷 Camera: Nikon D780
🔍 Lens: Nikon AF-S VR 70–200mm f/4G

04/01/2026

Closing 2025 with these frames. From Șesuri, with love! Part 2.

04/01/2026

Closing 2025 with these frames. From Șesuri, with love! Part 1.

31/12/2025

🍂❄️ “Winter’s Brush Across the Șesuri Plains” ❄️🍂

This is home.
Not just a place on the map, but a landscape that shaped my way of seeing the world.
Snow falls gently over the Șesuri Plains, covering familiar paths, old shelters,
and the quiet stories I grew up with.

The wooden hut stands as it always has — patient, weathered, unafraid of time.
Under this heavy winter sky, I’m reminded that beauty and harshness live side by side here.
How silence can feel comforting.
And how home, even in its coldest moments, never truly lets you go.

📷 Captured with Nikon D780 — photographing memory, stillness, and the land that raised me.

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📷 Camera: Nikon D780
🔍 Lens: Tokina atx-i 17–35mm f/4 FF

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16/11/2025

🍃🌌 “Echoes on the Horizon” 🌌🍃

A fleeting moment on the open road —
Stonehenge resting quietly beneath a sky brushed with soft pink dusk and rolling clouds.
Ancient stones, modern journey… sometimes the most unexpected frames happen between one breath and the next.
A reminder that beauty doesn’t wait — you simply catch it as it passes.

📷 Captured with Xiaomi Poco X7 Pro — proving that vision matters more than gear, and the right moment writes its own story.
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Gear Used
📱 Phone: Xiaomi Poco X7 Pro