Back in business

Fiddled with the template last night. The worst (and the only considerable) defect of WordPress.org blogs is that you can’t use a custom template without paying (like you can in Blogger if only you know what you’re doing). And the selection of templates is really limited! This look may change pretty soon again because I’m not sure at all I like it.

Fresh from the post office today:

Yay! I’m happy. The below scenery is from the very trip where I trashed my old lens – these were taken maybe 15 minutes later (the place of the accident is behind those bushy trees). However, these pics have been post-processed pretty heavily: I’ve lightened the front part to get some detail out of the stones – and the clouds are from another photo, taken another day in another city. The cloud photo was taken at noon so I’ve added a coloured filter on the clouds to give them the same tone of sunset as the rest of the picture has. Which one do you like the best?

And as you can see in the categories of this post, these were taken with my Tamron 17-50 mm lens.

I like this portrait one because there are more stones. The island in the horizon looks rather funny to me – like a lost street broom or something. And the bushy trees on the right make it difficult to change the sky. In a photo this small it’s not a problem but with bigger prints I don’t think it works.

This second picture doesn’t have the bushy trees and the island doesn’t seem so lost because of the woods on the left and I like the openness of this landscape. It gives a sense of a sort of tranquil peace. And yes, I know the horizon should not be in the middle of the picture…