*** This Week Through Your Eyes 2023.05.06 ***

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Many years ago, when I used to drive to work, I would pass through this area and, at a certain point in the road, the tangle of buildings used to make a rather pleasing pattern. One day I took my camera to work, stopped and risked the traffic. For those of you in the UK, it reminds me of the Channel 4 TV logo, gradually shifting until it makes sense. Took this many moons ago, I might process it with a lighter hand now. Elephant and Castle refers to the area of London where it was taken.

Nice capture, I am sure they demolished and built new apartments there, so it might even has an historic value. There is already a shinny block.Yes it looks like C4 logo.

I discovered Nik Collection Analog Effex . It works well with LR. Some "filmic" street portraits.

I'm a heavy Nik user but never really played with Analog Efex but that's because it's rare that I want to make something look older. However, #2 here is a resounding success.

Trapped

Pamukkale

Pamukkale was the one big tourist site I had not visited on previous trips to Turkey, and so I made sure to visit on this trip. Honestly, Pamukkale was a bit of a disappointment. 2,000 years ago all the pools had water. Ten years or so ago, all the pools had water. Today, there are only a handful of travertines with water, all of them artificially fed, I think. There is a lot of speculation about why the pools dried up. Drought? Water diverted for resort spas? Whatever the reason, the dry travertines are heartbreaking. None of that stops the steady flow of Instagram influencers and tour buses, though. The place is a zoo.

This is as close as I could get to the classic view of the travertines. It's a couple of fake pools at the bottom of the hill.

The hike up from the village of Pamukkale was uncrowded at first. I loved the otherworldly quality of it, even though it was cloudy and cold. The air temperature was 5°C and one had to hike barefoot.

The crowds had arrived by the time I got to the top of the hill.

Although there are a handful of pools with water, the vast majority, thousands of them, are bone dry.

The theater at Hierapolis, the ancient city adjacent to the the travertines, was one of the best I saw on this trip -- and I saw a lot of theaters. It was, of course, full of Instagrammers, and it took a while to get a reasonably clean shot of the theater.

A small but pleasant surprise was Kaklik Cave, underground travertines in a semi-industrial area about 40 minutes from Pamukkale. I was the only person there.

Wow! That's a tight squeeze.

Love the layers of heights with prominent chimney and that sky in the background.

I agree with Wormy. #2 is terrific.

I like the geometry of the buildings. I agree that the processing of the sky might be a bit heavy-handed. Still a nice photo, though.

Pamukkale

Brilliant shot from above.

Great shot and pp.

A cliff walk in the Algarve, Portugal
While it was cold and wet in Austria, we were lucky enough to have booked a week in Portugal. Lovely weather for hiking, 26°C warm and sunny.
Here a few shots, from just one walk, along the cliffs. At this time of year the flowers are blooming everywhere and the grass is lush & green.

Something quite soothing about watching the atlantic waves !

The fish are a long way down below this guy :-)

Nicely composed :-)

The first two are good! You have really nailed street photography in your work

Excellent, all of them. Coastal shots are the best.