Madeira: “Island of Flowers”
On Madeira, wherever you find a house, there’s also a garden. Easy to understand that Madeira is also called the “island of flowers”.
Edited: Please note, there now is a special gallery with 50 photos from Madeira
March 26, 2004
Random post from the past:
Rainbow in the Cairngorms
A rainbow appears over the forests near Loch Morlich in the Cairngorms (Cairngorm National Park, near Aviemore, Scotland UK). I slightly enhanced the colours using a circular polarizing filter. Depending on the position of such a filter, it will either enhance the colours - or even eliminate the rainbow effect! (A polarizer actually consists of two glass filters that are rotated against each other and is very useful for eliminating or enhancing all sorts of reflections) ...
April 11th, 2005 at 7:38 pm
this is really cool