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I Love Gebes
Sticker on the back of a street sign in Reykjavik, Iceland
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Seafood at El Rincon del Chirri SL
Very recently we spent almost 2 weeks in the Spanish town of El Puerto de Santa María. We stayed in a friend’s apartment and it was a really nice break away from the bad news and rush of life back in Ireland. Unfortunately we brought the rain with us but that didn’t dampen our spirits!…
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Opera House Glass
A detail from the Opera House, Reykjavik.
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Yellow and Pink
A small corner house in Reykjavik, Iceland. Love the colours. There was a music lesson going full swing when I passed there. I think they were beating drums.
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Drekinn
Drekinn, a shop in Reykjavik, Iceland. Drekinn means dragon in English.
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In emergency clear snow
A doorway in Reykjavik, Iceland.
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Have a cuppa
Jovial graffiti in Reykjavik, Iceland.
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Adventures adding a new lens to Aftershot Pro
Bibble 5 and Aftershot Pro have a useful lens correction function that will fix the distortion created by a camera lens when a photo is taken. You won’t even recognise the distortion unless you’re looking for it but quite often it can look like straight lines are slightly bent or bulging. The animated gif above…
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Bump Ahead
A sign warns of bumps ahead in the road. Pretty large bumps in the distance too.
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Sólfar, The Sun Voyager
This is a metal statue in Reykjavík of what looks like a Viking longboat but according to the Wikipedia page is in fact a “dreamboat”. It is a common misunderstanding that Sun Voyager is a Viking ship. It is quite understandable that many tourists think like this when travelling in Iceland, the land of the…
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Aftershot Pro B&W Workflow
Martin, over at Photoakademie.eu created a workflow video showing how a photo was processed and eventually turned into a black and white image using Aftershot Pro. Coming from a GIMP background I used layers and layer masks but never used adjustment layers to keep changes separate. Quite an eye opener for me! Plus another demonstration…
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Is that an axe?
A statue of Leif Ericsson stands in front of the Church of Hallgrimur, Reykjavik, Iceland.