Not the most stunning of photographs, as there doesn’t appear to be anything which captures the viewers eye. However at the time I did a 10 minute ambient sound recording of the sounds at the sea side, so if nothing else, this image would be a good backdrop to the video I’m going to make using this audio recording.
@afre, lovely edit. Your version looks more to me like what I saw at the time. I may try a similar (but less complicated!) edit myself, for submission into one of my photography clubs monthly competitions
cropped it so that the land mass and the white table on the left and the steps on the right lead attention to the swimming pool and cropped the sky so as to give an impression of it being an infinite pool (like the so called infinite displays on some of the mobiles these days!). IMG_2396-1.jpg.out.pp3 (12.1 KB)
Thank you everyone for the interesting and colourful results!
I was actually surprised at how much colour could be pulled out from the original raw file, which looks much better than my initial B&W conversion. Certainly I think the image is stronger as a colour image, than a B&W, as the eye can see the difference in colour between the sand, and the concrete walls and the rocks and algae.
So I’ve had another play with the image (that’s the beauty of non destructive editing in the likes of Darktable), and here is my current version: