*** This Week Through Your Eyes 2024.01.18 ***

Good morning to everyone wherever you are in the world...90% recovered now. Wow, thought I'd had flu before. I clearly hadn't. Been in bed, delirious, sweating, every joint aching, for days. And I'd had a flu jab. Maybe it was something else. Any way enough of that, many thatnks for Nigel for stepping up while I was in Brazil.

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Rio de Janeiro gets its name from Gaspar de Lemos, a Portuguese explorer who initially thought Guanabara Bay was a river. Rio de Janeiro means river of January.

I flew round Christ the Redeemer and Sugar Loaf in a helicopter, which was great but not great for photography. I eventually got the picture I wanted from a boat in Guanabara Bay.

I give up trying to second guess this website. I gave this image a curves boost because this website tends to anaesthetise pictures. Now it looks nothing like it does on my calibrated screen or even my phone. I'd love to see how it appears to others. If I post something on Flickr it looks the same as my PC.

Good to hear you're on the road to recovery. Sounds a very unpleasant week.

A Cold Snap

We had very little snow in Galloway, just a covering on the higher hills. But several days of hard frost.

There were some magnificent cloud formations.

Following my encounter with Turner watercolours last week, I was inspired to try some ICM images

A lone tree location.

Some old sheep folds. Ihave shared images of this spot before, probably with identical composition, but it's a place I like to return to.

Hard to comment on the processing without seeing the comparison, but maybe it could use a bit more drama. Fantastic composition though. Very different from the usual touristy pics of this. Of course 😁

Amazing clouds!

This is great but I'd crop it like this:-

Monte Luseto

I have been to this strange place before, where the Celts made some strange incisions into a large rock for their ceremonies. I wanted to experiment with my old Sigma 12-24 which I found autofocuses on my D850. On the way back I came across a couple of nice "Case Torre".

This strange cat looking carving is set into a church wall next to a ruined castle, below Monte Luseto. The cat was amongst the ruins.

Monte Luseto

Albereto

Rossena

I must say out of the thousands of shots that I have seen of this monument, your picture of Christ the Redeemer, is pretty unique and interesting.

How did you holiday in Brazil go?

* Light dusting

Great White Frozen North is not getting much snow...(so far, that is)

Iconic site and your shot is really full of drama in the sky, unseen before (imho).

Did you go to the jungle or stayed mainly in the city?

I love those 2 shots too, particularly the second one. Fab light.

Somehow, someway this shot talks to me.
Others are brilliant too.