break

of dawn

Green green grass

Nice wet grass in the morning light.

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small

A little farm, vast fields and an amazing sunrise. The beuaty of nature can make you feel small…

A craftsman and his work

Spotted this busy worker in the Alhambra in Granada.

Roofs

The roofs of the Arabic Quarter in Granada as seen from the Alhambra.

I painted the vignette myself with the adjustment brush in LR2. It gives me much more control over the shape and the size of the vignette than the standard sliders. I just used a big brush with maximum feather.

Ridges

Church door

Mecina, Spain.

Trevelez

Trevelez is the higest village of Europe and is famous for the fact that the well-known Serrano ham is being dryed in this village. Unfortunately we were there during siesta hours, but it was still a very beautiful and cosy little village. Just a little quiet at that time of the day

All the houses in the Alpujarras have very typical chimneys:

Carpets

The inhabitants of the Alpujarras make their own colorful carpets. Every tourist shop tries to sell them, which makes a nice scenery for playful pictures.

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.