This week’s throwback post takes us back to late winter this year, and a walk starting from the cliffs at Dingli and heading down through Fawwara. I already shared photos of the other chapel in the small hamlet of Fawwara. This one, too, proves to be rather tricky to photograph due to the very limited viewpoints. Those who are interested will find details about this … Continue reading Lunzjata
For this week’s recent photography I’m sharing a couple impressions from the rocky coastline near the salt pans from last week’s photo. The first, above, is a long exposure, similar to the photo I shared last week. This technique makes use of a strong filter (ideally neutral density) to reduce the light falling on the camera sensor, allowing the shutter to remain open for a … Continue reading Rocky Coastline
For this week’s recent photo I’m sharing another from last week’s walk. The latter half of the walk started along the rocky coastline near Il-Qala t-Tawwalija. As I approached the well-known St Peter’s Pool I passed some salt pans carved into the rock, and decided this was the perfect opportunity for some photography. I set up with my tripod and played around with my filters … Continue reading Salt Pans
Continuing from where I left off last week, the Prince Henry Cliff Walk in the Blue Mountains also passes by the Leura Cascades. There’s a little shallow cave by the bottom where one gets a few of these cascades. As often happens with these things, points of view are limited, so the choice is rather limited in terms of composition. I went with the comprehensive … Continue reading Leura Cascades
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
A few weeks ago, in the late afternoon, I drove down to Żurrieq for a walk down Wied Babu to the end of the valley. The wind had been strong and the water rougher than usual, so I had in mind a photo that I wanted to recreate. You see, I had been down that way before a few years back, but with only my … Continue reading Wied Babu Zawn
Last week I mentioned how lately I’ve been taking more photos of Maltese chapels, so I thought I’d share another of these countryside chapels. A couple weekends ago I headed down to Siġġiewi, intending to shoot a few chapels I had marked. Some of these I had visited before, but there was also one I had not. Even those I had visited, though, it was … Continue reading Madonna tal-Providenza
For the Iceland series, I thought we’d take a bit of a break from Reynisfjara. So instead, I’m sharing a couple of photos from the hugely popular Skógafoss in the late afternoon light. One can walk (up many steps) to a viewing platform near the top of the fall. I’m sure it’s a breathtaking view, but seeing as we didn’t have much time, I opted … Continue reading Skógafoss
The days are clearly getting longer now, and last week I managed to pop out for some photography one day after work. I had plans to shoot a couple of chapels in nearby Mosta, so I headed out just before the worst of the traffic started. The photos I’m sharing today are from the second one I visited, the chapel dedicated to the Immaculate Conception … Continue reading Kappella tal-Kunċizzjoni Immakulata
The photo I’m sharing today is from a morning walk last year, on our holiday in the Lake District, starting from Glenridding by Ullswater. The first part of the walk went upstream along the beck, towards a disused mine below Sheffield Pike. While it wasn’t a steep walk by any measure, I remember the first section as a long uphill piece, so I was happy … Continue reading Glenridding Beck
It probably didn’t escape your notice (read: unless you live in a cave without an Internet connection) that there was a lunar eclipse yesterday. While all lunar eclipses are largely the same (so if you see one, you’ve basically seen them all), this one was particularly interesting because in my part of the world totality would happen just before sunrise (and moonset). This makes it … Continue reading Tower and Veiled Moon
Over the coming weeks I’ll be sharing a few more photos from our visit to the Lake District last year. I’m starting this series with a photo from a leisurely walk around part of Derwent water, starting from Keswick. Both R and myself have repeated bits of this walk several times over the last few years, since we’ve been basing our holiday in Keswick. The … Continue reading Strandshag Bay
Muddy Boots 