Place is called God’s Window and that is somewhere in South Africa, close to Graskop.
There I find out:
If you are on dirt road and antelopes and monkeys are crossing road, go back to tar road ASAP.
Don’t take selfies with lions, elephants and crocodiles.
Haida 95mm CP doesn’t cover Irix 15mm and likely other lenses of similar focal length.
Summer in South Africa is rain period, not great conditions for photography in rain forest. Why they calling it rain forest?
Here is quick processing in darktable, dehazing, imitate freaky details, color contrast. Need time to think how to handle corners.
I was talking about going back to Graskop in March. Plans are changed, going right into Blyde river canyon. Why waste time on driving around? Go away you stupid six meter long lizard, don’t you see I am taking pictures?
Wow, what a view! And a wonderful shot! I particularly love what’s going on right in the center of the frame, the swirling trees and land features contrasted with the swirling clouds above it right around the center 25% of the view.
I tried to bring more depth to the image, by leaving haze in the background, and increasing contrast in the foreground. These edits follow after filmic compression.
EDIT: Forgot to mention: I tried to remove the vignette (just on top) with the new retouch tool (although I suspect I used the old algorithm, since I didn’t make use of wavelets)
Thanks. It was moment of light rain, so I can say lucky shot in rainy day. That in valley is Blyde River Nature Reserve. Place is overcrowded, right next to it is Wonder View which is kind of neglected, not overcrowded and panorama is possibility, but it was pouring when I arrived there. That would be panorama called clouds from above. Will revisit place, $20-25 day in self catering accommodation (that is price for two) and thousands of remarkable sites. Managed to visit few
@FBulovic sounds like you had fun and got to some lofty places, nice! Thanks 4 sharing it with us (also the context/story). Comrades waving a tinny FF {frogs’ flag}
I ended up with a bastard: lower half rawtherapee, upper half darktable. I self-imposed to crop it tight - then I thought I could make the joke “tightest than a nun’s asshole” … but I’ve never had the opportunity to check that popular metaphor, then I got lost in the trainwreck of thought. Sigh
