Madrid fall foliage
Today’s Fun Photo Friday galleries I present some of my favorite Day 2 in Madrid photos from October 27, 2016. Click on any image below to enlarge and bring up today’s slide show:
And now a second gallery of some fun street graffiti:
Madrid graffiti
Madrid graffiti
Madrid graffiti
Dog walking his human
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El Paso sunset — 11/4/2017
We love the views from our home here in El Paso. As you can see from this backyard view, we face out over the Mesilla Valley to the left, and the Franklin Mountains form our backyard view to the right. Frequently we are treated to some very spectacular sunsets.
El Paso sunset — 11/4/2017
All the pictures you see today are pretty much untouched except for some mild tweaking of contrast, however on one photograph I upped the saturation level ever so slightly. This is the one on which I upped the saturation:
El Paso sunset — 11/4/2017
As you can see, the others simply didn’t need saturation boosts straight out of the camera.
El Paso sunset — 11/4/2017
In addition to changing the composition and framing, I also played around with orientation. Here’s a portrait view from that evening (I may have to consider this image for a future book cover):
El Paso sunset — 11/4/2017
This last image I cropped to simulate a panoramic view:
El Paso sunset — 11/4/2017
This sunset series was taken in raw on a Panasonic FZ-1000 developed in SILKYPIX Developer Studio 4.4 SE. The subsequent JPEGs were then tweaked in Google’s now defunct Picasa 3. That’s a real shame, too, because Google really had this program right when they abruptly quit supporting it several years back.
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Streetlights
This series on Ecuador began nearly five months ago, and the images presented during that series are but a fraction of the many taken during our ten days there. My first photos of Ecuador were taken in Guayaquil on February 14, 2016. The last shots were taken in Quito on February 23. In between we saw a cocoa plantation, walked the streets of Cuenca, stayed at the beautiful La Andaluza resort, traveled to Alausí and took the Devil’s Nose train, journeyed deep into the Amazon River Basin for another fantastic resort stay at La Casa del Suizo, visited a hummingbird preserve and crossed the high Andes, stood on the Equator at the Middle of the World, and finished in Quito.
Door Light
I sincerely hope you enjoyed the tour these past five months, and that you’ve not grown bored with Ecuador.
Independence Monument
Today’s Fun Photo Friday is the end of the road for this look at Ecuador, so here are some final images:
Reflections
Colors
Monumento a los Héroes del 10 de agosto de 1809
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