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We pulled in at the Mirador de Guise y Ayose and after photographing the statues there like everyone else (I have yet to post those photos, stay tuned) I pointed the camera at this little red-ringed 40 sign keeping watch by the road. Which is funny, because the view behind it is the whole reason anyone stops here: the central spine of Fuerteventura folding down into the Atlantic, lit up like someone had turned up the contrast knob on the hills while leaving the sea a flat, hazy blue.

The sign made me laugh though. Forty kilometres an hour on a road where every bend hands you a new postcard? You’d be lucky to manage twenty. You know the Conor Pass in Kerry? The road surface is better in Fuerteventura, but all that separates you from the cliff beyond are small white blocks or thin guardrails. Take a look on Google Maps and switch to street view to see.

I shot the photo at f/8 but the hills are so far away they go soft behind the sign, and I rather like how the red ring anchors all that orange and ochre. A reminder, I suppose, that the best landscapes are the ones you slow right down for, sign or no sign.

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