Today’s recent photo is another from the walk I did a few weeks ago, starting in Mistra. I think this is the only photo I had in mind before I started the walk, and it was a good excuse to take out the camera early on in the walk. Unusually for a Sunday morning with good weather, there were only a couple boats in the … Continue reading Rdum il-Bies
For a change, last week I didn’t get to do any climbing. I don’t know how long it’s been since that happened. A spot of rain, and wrong alignment of my availability with that of my usual climbing partners, meant that I had to go without. So instead I took the opportunity to drive down to Mtaħleb for some walking and photography. I wasn’t too … Continue reading Il-Qaws
Now that the technical post on correcting the Lee Big Stopper’s colour cast is done, I can get back to my more usual posts, sharing recent photography. The one I’m sharing today is a bit special – this is the vista I mentioned a couple weeks ago and, as it happens, the reason I went through the trouble of updating my methodology with the Big … Continue reading Rdum id-Delli
A little more than a year ago I wrote a rather popular blog post on how to correct the colour cast caused by the Lee Big Stopper. If you’re not a regular reader but clicked through to this post, odds are that you are familiar with the blue cast caused by the filter and are looking for a way to correct it. If not, I … Continue reading Correcting the Lee Big Stopper Colour Cast
Another late post this week, for the throwback series. This takes us back to January this year, and that poor excuse for a winter that we had. Not that I complained at the time – I was too busy climbing to worry about that kind of thing. Now, though, the sparse rainfall in the winter months is making itself felt. The countryside has been dry … Continue reading Rocky Coastline
Today’s photo is another from the series of Maltese chapels I’m working on. This is actually the second chapel I visited on Good Friday earlier this year, after the one in Wied Speranza. I must have passed by this chapel so many times, as it’s on the way from Mosta to a cross-roads leading to Mġarr, Rabat / Dingli, or Tarġa Gap. On that Good … Continue reading San Pawl tal-Qliegħa
Busy season continues, and this weekend didn’t amount to much. We had some important errands to run on Saturday, and by Sunday I was so tired out I cancelled my planned climbing. I mean, the weather was beautifully windy, sunny, with lots of clouds, in other words perfect photography weather, and I didn’t even go take some photos. Figure that. I was thinking about this … Continue reading Kappella tal-Isperanza
Before I move on to more recent work, which is still in progress, I thought I’d share another photo from the series I took in Lapsi last month. This is precisely the kind of thing I had in mind as I set out that day. In fact this was one of the first photos I made there. There is something soothing about the waves lapping … Continue reading Rocky Coastline
A quick post today to share another photo from the series I took at Lapsi a couple weeks ago. This is another long exposure, the last one I took that day, in fact. Where the rocks get regularly wet they turn black, making for some strong contrast with the rock that stays mostly dry and becomes a sun-bleached white. You get the same effect on … Continue reading Rocky Coastline
I’m still getting used to the winter season here. Even when it rains, it’s proving possible to enjoy some outdoorsy stuff. Thankfully, as last year it was a very wet winter. Take last week: it was sunny all week, then the predicted rain came on schedule on Saturday morning. I had planned to meet a few friends and climb on Saturday afternoon, but agreed at … Continue reading Rocky Coastline and Filfla
[Update 8-Jul-2016: a more recent post gives a more accurate method to correct the colour cast on the Lee Big Stopper.] [Edited 22-May-2016: included a table with the RGB control points used; this allows the use of this data in other applications.] Today I’m finally writing about the method I’ve adopted recently to remove the colour cast on the Lee Big Stopper. It’s a bit of … Continue reading Removing the Colour Cast on the Lee Big Stopper
Today I’m sharing the better known view at Dwejra, with the Azure Window in the distance and many small rock pools in the foreground. This is looking pretty much in the opposite direction of the view I shared last week. In a similar manner, I did this as a long exposure. Actually I took a couple of photos at different exposure settings to allow me some … Continue reading Natural Stone Arch and Crashing Waves
Muddy Boots 