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La Geria vineyards
Vines grown one to a pit in black volcanic gravel, each behind its own low crescent wall — farming that looks like land art.
À propos La Geria vineyards
ItinéraireThe strangest agricultural landscape in Spain and one of the strangest anywhere. Because Lanzarote has almost no rain, vines are planted singly in conical pits dug into black volcanic gravel, each sheltered from the trade winds by a low crescent wall of stacked stone. Thousands of them, across a whole valley.
What that gives a photographer is repetition and rhythm: identical shapes marching away across black ground, with a single green vine in each. It reads as pattern from a distance and as something almost sculptural up close.
The black gravel is the technical thing to know. It absorbs light rather than reflecting it, so faces need to be turned toward the sun or lifted — otherwise the ground takes the fill light away and leaves people underexposed against a bright sky.
Meilleur moment pour photographier
Late afternoon; the black gravel needs low, direct light
Conseils
Working vineyards — stay on the tracks and out of the pits. Several bodegas along the road allow visits and make a good indoor alternative if the wind is up.
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