jerseyfinn
TUG Member
I finally work my way through a mountain of images shot in Costa del Sol last month. I've added a couple of new galleries which folks heading to the region might find useful in scoping out their own itinerary.
This Gaucín gallery gives a taste of what a drive into the mountains to peruse the white villages is like. It's a great place to stop & stroll around a bit. I get lucky with the butterfly who pops up while I'm shooting a flower bed. We were intending to walk up a trail to the ruins of a Moorish castle, but we could not find the path & it was getting really hot. So we now have an itinerary for our next visit.
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I've also put up this Ronda gallery. Ronda is a city that most folks visit when they visit Marbella environs. It is indeed a nice place. This time we get there before the restaurants close for siesta ( makes for a happier wife
) and then I do my photo thing for the rest of the day. We meet some musicians who perform beneath a gazebo astride the gorge. A perfect location to get out of the hot sun.
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I also put up a Ronda Candids gallery. I wanted to catch candid shots of the town folks. This proves a tricky task as the locals all disappear during siesta hour & don't come back out until 5PM or so when the stores open and they head out shopping or go for some tapas since they don't eat dinner here until 9PM or so. I end up with some turistas in my images, but I think that I capture mostly locals as my eye and ear learns to pick them out in a crowd.
I hope that TUGgers planning a future visit to this region find these images helpful in choosing itineraries.
I captured some 3000 images during those 16 days that we were in Costa del Sol and ended up with some 350 "keepers". It's really not too hard editing these images as you get rid of lots images during your initial processing and the rest of it is having fun cropping and sharpening as you relive your trip in those images. So now that I've cleaned out my pixel closet, it's time for another trip. Actually we are headed to Ocean Pointe next week, so I'll have a new pile of stuff to process. My video camera just went in for repair so I'll only be shooting stills on this trip ( the off switch is stuck in the 'on' position -- Sony wants $159 for the labor even though the camera is only 9 months old -- but I took an extended warranty from Circuit City and those labor costs will be covered seperately, so the lesson is that an extra warranty is good for a more expensive electronic purchase ). We're also awaiting our son's arrival from Texas. He's been awaiting his Air Force assignment and is stuck in limbo until his paperwork comes. We're hoping that he can spend a few days at Ocean Pointe with us. Time will tell.
In any case, I'll be working with pixels and video when I get back as once I get the photos done, I start to make DVDs of our travels with the images and video. Thanks to those musicians we meet, we've now got a couple of music CDs to lay the soundtrack for our Spanish travels. And we've still got a few trips left before year's end. Timeshare certainly keeps one in motion.
Barry
This Gaucín gallery gives a taste of what a drive into the mountains to peruse the white villages is like. It's a great place to stop & stroll around a bit. I get lucky with the butterfly who pops up while I'm shooting a flower bed. We were intending to walk up a trail to the ruins of a Moorish castle, but we could not find the path & it was getting really hot. So we now have an itinerary for our next visit.
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I've also put up this Ronda gallery. Ronda is a city that most folks visit when they visit Marbella environs. It is indeed a nice place. This time we get there before the restaurants close for siesta ( makes for a happier wife
) and then I do my photo thing for the rest of the day. We meet some musicians who perform beneath a gazebo astride the gorge. A perfect location to get out of the hot sun.
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I also put up a Ronda Candids gallery. I wanted to catch candid shots of the town folks. This proves a tricky task as the locals all disappear during siesta hour & don't come back out until 5PM or so when the stores open and they head out shopping or go for some tapas since they don't eat dinner here until 9PM or so. I end up with some turistas in my images, but I think that I capture mostly locals as my eye and ear learns to pick them out in a crowd.
I hope that TUGgers planning a future visit to this region find these images helpful in choosing itineraries.
I captured some 3000 images during those 16 days that we were in Costa del Sol and ended up with some 350 "keepers". It's really not too hard editing these images as you get rid of lots images during your initial processing and the rest of it is having fun cropping and sharpening as you relive your trip in those images. So now that I've cleaned out my pixel closet, it's time for another trip. Actually we are headed to Ocean Pointe next week, so I'll have a new pile of stuff to process. My video camera just went in for repair so I'll only be shooting stills on this trip ( the off switch is stuck in the 'on' position -- Sony wants $159 for the labor even though the camera is only 9 months old -- but I took an extended warranty from Circuit City and those labor costs will be covered seperately, so the lesson is that an extra warranty is good for a more expensive electronic purchase ). We're also awaiting our son's arrival from Texas. He's been awaiting his Air Force assignment and is stuck in limbo until his paperwork comes. We're hoping that he can spend a few days at Ocean Pointe with us. Time will tell.
In any case, I'll be working with pixels and video when I get back as once I get the photos done, I start to make DVDs of our travels with the images and video. Thanks to those musicians we meet, we've now got a couple of music CDs to lay the soundtrack for our Spanish travels. And we've still got a few trips left before year's end. Timeshare certainly keeps one in motion.
Barry
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