This was another one of those serendipitous discoveries. Me and a friend were driving up and down the hills, trying to find the exact location of an image I had seen online a few days earlier. While we did find the spot, we couldn’t get much out of it. First, our main subject, a castle, was quite distant and there …
The Drama Unfolds
I just returned home from too short a trip to Tuscany, where I went to meet some online friends for the first time in real life, show them a bit of the country and take some photos too. Unfortunately, the Saturday was plagued by bad weather and constant rain, so we did a visit to the city of Siena, hopping …
Take Me Home, Country Roads
A little demonstration that sometimes the best locations are in our backyards. In this case, less than one hour’s drive from home. With the right light, every landscape can be magnificent. Equipment used: Fujifilm X-E2, Fujinon XF 16-55mm F2.8 R LM WR. Exposure data: Three exposures at 1/8s, 1/15s, and 1/30s, f/11, ISO 200. Merged as HDR using Adobe Lightroom …
The Hills Are On Fire
The natural landscape photo I am sharing this week is not that natural. The hillsides close to where I live have been largely shaped by the hand of man and most hills are covered in vineyards or fields of cereals. Still, this is not a cityscape, so it fits the category. This particular photo just won a contest too, so …