Travel Photography

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In years gone by it was said to be a haven for pirates and smugglers and, as you wander around its narrow lanes, alleys and duckboards, it is easy to understand why. But while there is no evidence that pirates ever had hideouts in Tai O, piracy in the surrounding seas was rampant.

Hiked the Kumano Kodo Trail in April. This was in Tanabe.

Went to swim there 3 days ago and it was amazing. The water is so unbelievably clear, you can swim in the pools while the waves outside are over a meter high and not notice anything of it. Also there's lots of fish for snorkeling

On the slopes between Käserstatt and Mägisalp in the Swiss alps. Hasliberg overlooks the Haslital and Lake Brienz with Eiger, Mönch and Jungfrau (Top of Europe) on the other side.

The image was taken by me in January of 2012.

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I had to drive to Sacramento for a work conference this week, and took this photo as the sun rose over Mono Lake. I did like the haze over the tufa towers near the shoreline. Enjoy.

cross-posted from: https://monero.town/post/640742

> Issue - I have 282 .CR2(raw) photos that need to be converted in batch/mass to same time but don't know how. > OS - Vanilla OS 22.10 (Ubuntu) > > - Can this be done with darktable? If so how? > - Any software recommendations for this? > I rather not use online tools for privacy and compression reasons.

Last night had perfect conditions for a sunset shot of Capela do Senhora da Pedra, just south of Porto, in Vila Nova de Gaia, in northern Portugal. Fujifilm XT5, 16mm, ISO500, f22, 1.5ss

I took this the morning of Aug. 14, 2023. The sun was shining through clouds. It rained off and on all morning. This was on a short backpack in. My son's girlfriend had never been backpacking before, so we took her on this short overnighter. Taken with a Canon R5, 15-35mm f/2.8L lens.

It’s also a great place to unleash your inner Fossil Hunter at the worlds richest source of dinosaur fossils. BTW, this is Cretaceous Park. Velos and Tyrannosaurus did NOT exist in the Jurassic Period! Here is where they are found!

Bird of Paradise, near Museo Nacional de Antropología, Mexico City.

c. 2023

!SUP on Eibsee

Just came back from a week in the German Alps. Eibsee is georgous, the water look almost tropical and in the background German's highest mountain the "Zugspitze". You can see me relaxing on my SUP on this photo.

Going on a self-drive safari is easier than you probably think. At least as long as you do it in South Africa, and preferably in Kruger National Park, where all kinds of facilities are available. If you're not used to spotting animals on your own, stay in the southern part of the park, where you can just drive around and look for clusters of cars that already have discovered something exciting.

When you begin to think that you know what you're doing, drive further north, where there are way fewer people around. You can easily stay in the park for a couple of weeks, sleeping in a new camp every night.

My partner and I took a day trip to Lugano from Como last fall. While the price of Swiss food was a bit steep compared to Italy, and the fog spoiled our photos from atop the Alps, there were so many incredible, photo-worthy sites on the ground.

Not pictured: the smell. What I would have done to bottle and bring home the fantastic aroma of this city.

For texture, the creators of this temple punched thousands of holes on the stones about 5,000 years ago. The effect was really cool. Malta.

Not a big fan of the local government, but their airlines and hubs are often the only practical alternative to get to some unusual destinations.

This was just before the whole Rohingya thing got started. I wouldn't go now. But seeing the sun rise above the many temples of Bagan veiled in the mist from thousands of wood stoves being fired up to cook breakfast is really something.

This is in Ashgabat, the capital of Turkmenistan. Among many, many strange things, this one actually stands out a little bit. If you're into architecture that involves a lot of gold and marble, you can't find a better place to visit.

While the Silk Road has been replaced by shipping lanes and air-freight, you can still find the ancient bazaar atmosphere in pretty much any major city in Iran.

This is one of my favorite campsites ever. This is sunrise over Evolution Creek and McClure Meadow, in the high country of the Sierra Nevada mountains, in Kings Canyon National Park, in California. I’m fortunate enough to live relatively close, in Bishop, California. Still, there are no roads here - you must make your way on foot, or by horseback or pack train.

I backpacked the roughly fifty mile loop, from North Lake to South Lake. Some do it quickly, but I enjoyed taking seven days for the loop.

Enjoy!

Iwakuni is where my parents met, in 1960. My little sister and I visited in March of this year, and were able to scatter my older sister’s ashes in the Nishiki river, and commit them to our ancestors. I haven’t visited the Kintai Bridge since I was a boy. It still looks the same. Fond memories…

Took this back in March, while visiting our daughter, who is teaching English in Japan for this past year. We took the opportunity to take a couple of weeks to travel around Japan. She is in Hirado, south of Nagasaki. I didn’t want to haul my DSLR, so I made do with the phone camera.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/139613

> * Valley of Fire State Park - Nevada > * Canon EOS 7D > * HDR

The best time of the year for going on a self-drive safari is the next two-three months. It's dry season, so not too much green for the animals to hide in. (Some animals still manage to hide just fine, though, as seen here.) And there's no mosquitoes to worry about until the rains begin, so no malaria either.

There's a fairly high entrance fee for the park per day for foreign visitors, but if you buy an "annual pass" (the Wild Card), after a week you're there "for free" for as long as you want. And it's really, really easy to spend two or even three weeks just driving around in this huge park, staying in a different camp every night.

I am on a bicycle tour right now and came past this beauty of a scene cycling the Passo Gavia. Incredible mountain pass.