Freeze!

Normally not one for heavy processing, I reprocessed this one, taken last summer. Quite heavily, for my standards, but I like the result.

This was during the Street Art exhibit at the Tate Modern. The artist is JR.

London's Beautiful Tonight

Last night's sunset on the Thames.

This is real; I slightly nudged up contrast and saturation, and set the white balance to "cloudy".

Cross Traffic

Sunset at Hammersmith Bridge, with some little boats just passing below.

Golden hour! Larger view at Flickr or Zooomr.

Sicily unplanned

Fast forward to last year. Two of the shots I liked best, both in Sicily, and both with an unplanned element. On the first one, this kid walks into the frame when it was too late to do anything about it (had to chimp to even known whether he was in or not). And he really completes the composition:-)

This is in the Valley of the Temples near Agrigento (which, confusingly, is a ridge).

The second one is the opposite - I was waiting for the last person to leave, but when I saw him in the doorway, I knew that that was the shot.

This is the Duomo in Siracusa.

Start

Yet another blog. What to expect? For now, I'm not making too many promises, let's just see where this is going, if anywhere. I'll try and post here somewhat regularly. Mostly a picture with a brief associated story. I seem to gravitate towards landscapes and architecture. You'll see few holiday snaps or other personal stuff here. And no HDR, wild colours, and vignettes.

But enough talking already. Starting with a really old picture. An old favourite, and a scan from slide. It's a bit small, because IE butchered the scaling, and I don't want to assume you have a huge screen. Click the picture for larger sizes.

This is taken during the Blüemlisalp Traverse from the summit of Wyssi Frau (3650m) in Berner Oberland in Switzerland, looking towards Morgenhorn (3623m). You can see two groups of climbers following us; the first of the second group of 3 is just entering the light on the lower part of the ridge. (And note his shadow way below!) I think this must have been around 8am one day in July 1986(!).

We started the traverse in the Blüemlisalphütte (2840m) around 4am, climbed Morgenhorn, traversed to Wyssi Frau on the ridge you can see here, and from here continued over an even more exposed ridge to Blüemlisalphorn (3663m).
I'll post some more later, or see the links on this Flickr set.