Weekend Archive Series « Roads Less Traveled Photography

Tropical Scene, Finike

• HDR Photo

This picture was taken about a one minute walk away from the Harbor at Finike, seen last week. Hey, if your bus is going to have problems with the AC, you might as well come away from it with a few good photos!

Old and New Kiev

The three main buildings in this picture are a business center, a hospital, and a residential building. Guess which one is which?

In a city that certainly could use some new hospitals, you won’t see a new hospital in this picture. The new building is a business center. Guess I didn’t have to tell [...]

Starry Starry Night

In this case, this photo isn’t really what it seems. Click on the following link and read the first comment in the “Comments and faves” section!

Starry Starry Night on Flickr

The View of the Dnieper

• HDR Photo

Mariinsky Park in Kiev has a number of scenic views overlooking the Dnieper and the Left Bank of Kiev. This is an evening view from one of them. This photo is about four years old, but it wasn’t until recently that I returned to it and did some processing that makes [...]

Turkish Countryside

• HDR Photo

Seen in the Turkish countryside south of Kemer. Late September 2010.

Ostap Veresai

~~ Wonderful, wonderful life history here… ~~

Ostap Mykytovych Veresai (Ukrainian: Остап Микитович Вересай), (1803 – 1890) was a renowned minstrel and kobzar from the Poltava Governorate of the Russian Empire (in today’s Ukraine). He, like no other, helped in the popularity of kobzar art not only in his country, but also outside its [...]

St. Sophia, Kiev

Saint Sophia Cathedral in Kiev is an outstanding architectural monument of Kievan Rus’. Today, it is one of the city’s best known landmarks and the first Ukrainian patrimony to be inscribed on the World Heritage List.

The complex of the Cathedral is the main component the National Sanctuary “Sophia of Kiev” the state institution [...]

Mean

Three exposure HDR.

The HDR process did not make as big a difference in this one as I thought it would. Yet, there was some noticeable improvement. What really surprised me is that usually when I start out with an ISO 1600 photo, then create a three exposure HDR, the outcome is often unusable [...]