Ridges

Bubion & Capileira

Hey folks, I’m sorry for not posting anything the last two weeks, but I had a hectic time since my last post. Family reasons mainly, maybe I’ll post something about it on my personal blog, I don’t know yet.

So, I promosed you more pictures from Spain, right? Ok. This one is from the southern region of the Sierra Nevada, called Las Alpujarras. These are the villages of Bubion (right) and Capileira (left, the highest of the two). The picture was taken close to a third one of these villages, called Pampaneira, situated a bit lower in the valley.

As you can see these little white villages are very idyllic and seem to almost fall of the mountain’s flank. If you think this is not one of my most strongest images, then I completely agree ;-). It was a very overcast day yielding pale colors. I did some effort in Photoshop’s LAB color mode to recover the image a bit. I don’t feel like I succeeded very well in it, though. It looks more like a painting than a photograph now. I uploaded the full reselution original as well, so feel free to comment or to give suggestions on the postprocessing. I still wanted to share the picture with you to show how beautiful nature can be in that area of Spain.

Evening glow

This is the last one from Sunday and my favorite one. Some fog was coming up in the background and I tried to capture it to the best I could with my wide-angle lense I hope you liked the atmosphere of the images of Sunday. Tomorrow we go back to Spain!

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Sun setting in Reet

A nice sunset last sunday in the fields of Reet.

After a while some fog came up as well, which gave the place a nice atmosphere.

I still have one shot for you tomorrow from this lovely sequence. So stay tuned!

An evening in Reet

Something completely different today. No Spain, but the magnificent country of Belgium. Last weekend we had extremely nice weather, with very nice evenings. This shot is from sunday, a lovely evening. I took the car and drove around a bit, looking for some nice fields, which I found evenutally in Reet. It’s an hdr from four shots: 1.3s, 6s, 13s and 25s at f11, ISO 100.

Coast

Sometimes you can find small and quite beaches at the costa del sol.

Nerja

The coast of the small cosy village of Nerja at the costa del sol.

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Peaceful

Hello again! It’s been a long time since I posted something here. I’ve been on a conference in Porto and then went on a long vacation in Andalucia, Spain. We had a great time and I came home with almost 4000 pictures (1000 in Portugal and 3000 in Spain). Unfortunately it took a long time to sort them all because I had some laptop troubles last week. Anyway, we’re back and here we go! This shot is taken in Portugal at a very nice beach near Porto. The sun was setting and it was such a peaceful atmosphere. Stay tuned for more holiday pics! Technicals after the jump.

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On the road

There’s something mystical about an empty road…

Which one do you like best? Both shots taken in Germany at our last trip. The second one is taken in Rudesheim, the first somewhere between the Rhein and the Mosel where there are brilliant landscapes.

Techs and postprocessing after the jump.

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Tree in the vineyards

A small tree in the wineyards at the banks of the Rhein in Rüdesheim, Germany. We spent four days at the Rhein and the Mosel last week and it was a lovely weekend: very relaxing, nice wheather, delicious white wines and tremendous amounts of flesh on the German restaurant menus. I think I gained a little weight back there.

I put some unprocessed shots from the trip in this Flickr set. Enjoy!