Surgery and some Photo Edits

Figured I’d just shove up an image or two from the current spread of edits I have to finish- Knoydart/Kintail, and Madeira, before my upcoming surgery (you can die through anaesthesia, so yeah.) There’s a lot for me to go through (thousands upon thousands of images to filter and sift and keep/delete!) so it will likely take me a few months, and given how many more trips are coming soon and how complicated my editing flow is getting, my backlog is sure to grow! 😀

From Curral Martinho, a view over the Massif of Madeira, from the Plateau on the center-left to Encumeada down the middle, with Pico Ruivo and Pico Arieeiro on the right (with Pico das Torres poking in front of Ruivo.)

Try zooming in on that bad boy (it works best on a web browser on a desktop and not on some random app on a phone.) 223 Megapixels! A whopper. I’ve got an even more high-definition one (about 50% more pixels as I shot it in portrait) but I’ve not even bothered tried stitching and editing that one, as this one almost killed my Lightroom session.

A view from Poiso over to the Massif, from the east. Pico Arieeiro on the left (with the radar dome), Pico das Torres to the right, then Pico Ruivo poking up in the back right (burned from recent fires.)

This guy has less pixels but is nonetheless very much a panorama of multiple shots. Unlike the first image this one was shot with a CP and so I had to fix some pretty nasty polarizer sky (though the first image did have an unbalanced sky anyway, a CP would have made it even worse.)

Looking back from the road up Chão da Ribeira at some of the epic cliffs on the northern side of Madeira Island near Seixal.

Sorry for giving you nothing but Madeira! You’ll have to wait for some Scotland ones (there is quite a spread already but I’m too tired to add more, and have surgery tomorrow!) … I’m having a meatotomy (urethral/meatal spreading-by-force by a surgeon with a metal rod) and will be under general anaesthesia… here’s hoping I wake up and that I will come back alive with more photographs! If not, well, I’m glad life was as reasonable as it was.