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On the front of our Insight Guide to Austria is a photo, taken in glorious sunshine of course, of Hallstatt.
Hallstatt is a must-see tourist destination, with coach trips galore and swathes of foreign day trippers (ourselves included) clutching cameras of various degrees of sophistication and photographing everything in sight.
However, I was the only person in town with a tripod strapped to my back!
Liz and I visited Hallstatt twice. The first time it rained so hard we just stayed in a convenient cafe, swilling coffee and eating the local strudel. Just like home in North Wales actually, except the cake was better!
The second time we went the rain had abated to an intermittent drizzle and the surrounding hills were reasonably visible so I actually got the tripod off my back this time and set about photographing the place.
This photo show the typical 'travel guide' view, and very nice it is too. I actually prefer this image to the one on the front of our travel guide as the light is much softer and the general ambience is much closer to how we actually felt while we were there. What the Irish would call a 'soft' day.
Filename - town lake mountain 01.jpg
Camera - Canon 5D
Lens - 24-105mm zoom @ 47mm
Exposure - 1/10sec @ f16, ISO100
Location - Hallstatt, Austria
This image - 800x533px JPEG
Conversion - ACR & PS-CS2
Comments - Tripod, mirror lockup and cable release used to prevent camera movement.
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