"A travel picture must express the feeling of a time and place, portray a land, its people, or a culture in its natural state, and has no geographic limitations." This may seem clear, but different judges interpret it quite differently.
This fountain was a few blocks from our hotel in San Miguel, and I think it wasn't there a couple of years ago. I hung out for about an hour one evening with my tripod set up waiting for people to pass, and this is my favorite shot. It took some work to get rid of bright distractions.
This is a very popular site for photographers. We had unpleasant weather but got some decent images.
We spent our first four nights of our Elderhostel trip in Borgarnes, an uninteresting village on the west coast of Iceland. The buildings are typical of Iceland. This was the only picture I made in Borgarnes
On Kitava Island, Trobriand Group, Papua New Guinea. There was the usual dancing going on, and he was watching it. I thought him more interesting than the dance...
This needed a lot of work in Photoshop to get the exposure on the different parts right.
Shot in the Rialto market. Had to do a lot to clean up and get rid of bright spots
Burano was great on the day we had high water (aqua alta). And I had brought boots from home.
In Andalucia. Shot at dawn - we spent the night in an inn across the street to get the shot.
Woman being painted before the dance. Note that in these pictures the dances are wearing their ordinary clothing.
This was made after the dance was over but before the dancers went home and changed back into their usual clothing
We spent the better part of a cold, wet day on the Cimitero, or cemetery island. I found very few things I wanted to shoot, but this is a good illustration of where most Venetians go when they die.
Seen in the old Ghetto in Venice. It took a little Photoshop work to suppress the brightness on the building and remove some trash in the water.
In the Lavanderia in San Miguel. Not quite as much fun as the dogwashing, but more usual.
Radda, Tuscany. I had to do a lot of work to tone down the sign. This is the same person, but not the same cat, almost shown in Waiting for the Master.
I saw this setup every day in the plaza near our hotel, where the magnificent Colleoni statue is located.
Geiko are full-fledged geisha. In the original the people in the background were sharp, so I blurred them in Photoshop. Also, the foot of the left geiko was cut off by the edge of the picture. So I cloned the foot and the step to make the cutoff realistic. These may in fact be Japanese visitors, perhaps even men, made up as Geiko for fun. They were photographing one another when I first saw them. Shot in Kyoto.
I was required to hand-hold for this shot. The cropping was suggested by a PSA judge
This is the only decent sunset I got on the entire Italy trip. I had to remove a construction crane; otherwise I left the image as shot.
There were some kids peeking out of the upper left window at me and I waited until one of them was at least somewhat visible.
My intention was an image of the woman, but luckily I caught the full stairway as well.
Near the Alhondiga Museum. I had to work at darkening the buildings in the background to avoid serious distractions. The cloud is real.
The only detail I could get, since I couldn't get very close with a camera
Kitava Island, one of the Trobriands. I was avoiding the dancing by wandering through the nearby village.
