Please excuse the temporary downtime of the blog. I will be moving the blog to a new host in a few weeks, which should make problems like this a thing of the past. I would have done it right now, but I have 3 weeks of travel in front of me, so I have to deal with that first. But I hope there will be no more downtime until then, and all works as it should.

I wonder why I did not take another shot for this panorama, to make it a bit wider. I regret that I did not include the mountain on the right. But hard to say what I was thinking when I took this panorama. Still, I like how the shadow is perfectly placed around the golden ratio, for a nice composition :)

This is a two shot panorama, taken at the Grossglockner High Alpine Road in Alps in Austria. Edited in Lightroom and Photoshop.

Technique: Photoshop Edit, Number of exposures: 2, Camera Model: Sony a7R + Metabones MkIII Adapter, Lens: Canon 16-35mm F2.8, Focal length: 35mm, Aperture: 14, Middle exposure time: 1/125s, ISO: 100, Tripod used: yes, Location: 47.121260, 12.820338

I’m a little low on new photos right now, so here is one more of the lights on the new Old bridge. But I’m currently planing a trip, so there should be new photos from many interesting places very soon :)

For this shot I took three exposures, but due to soft earth under the tripod, they were not properly aligned. So I ended with just using a single exposure, which I overexposed to get the detail in the bridge shadows, and underexposed to get the detail in the pillars. It worked out quite nicely. All edits done in Lightroom and Photoshop.

No new photo for today, but instead two new high-res wallpapers for you :) Still, since the 3440×1440 seems to be the most popular, here are two more in this one (but next time will add some other ones :)). As always, the new ones and all the older ones can be downloaded form the wallpapers page.

I don’t really like to have a white sky in my photos. But here the only other choice was to make the sky grey, and I really preferred to not have that. The day I took this, under the Matterhorn in Alps, most of the sky was covered by huge clouds, so no change for any real detail there, even with HDR. But I did like the reflection, so I edited this photo anyway :)

This is a single exposure, edited in Lightroom and Photoshop.

Technique: Photoshop edit, Number of exposures: 1, Camera Model: Canon 5D mark II, Lens: Canon 16-35mm F2.8, Focal length: 30mm, Aperture: 13, Middle exposure time: 1/40s, ISO: 100, Tripod used: yes, Location: 45.991124, 7.706562