Today I am posting another picture from the West Fork. It’s not a picture that I overlooked in the previous post, but rather one that I am using to test some new Photoshop techniques. I’ll show and describe the photo first; for anyone interested in the techniques applied, read on after the picture. This picture…
Andean Panorama
Today’s photo was taken from the observation car of our train, the Andean Explorer as we traveled from Cusco to Lake Titicaca in the highlands of Peru. It was early evening and I really like the soft light and long shadows at that time of day. The railroad traverses very flat terrain, a valley between…
More Sunrises
It is no accident that many of my mountain scenes feature sunrises and sunsets. I like to get out early in the morning. Even without a brilliant sunrise, the light is soft and the colours look better. Morning and evening light is especially complementary to the mountains and of course if I can get a…
Scenes from Italy
In 2007 we vacationed in Europe with our daughter, Jaime and her friend Sapna. One of our stops was a small village in Tuscany called Sommocolonia, where we spent a week in an old stone villa. Today, I’m posting two favourite photos from that area, starting with an old stone bridge. Ponte della Maddalena (Italian:…