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<blockquote data-quote="Blue439" data-source="post: 830602" data-attributes="member: 53455">Devil’s Tower (2019)In July 2019, we took a three-week trip to Portugal, one week on the mainland and two weeks in a rented house on the island of Madeira, in the middle of the Atlantic. That was our last “normal” Summer vacation before the Chinese virus hit in 2020 and we had to cancel our planned vacation in Crete in July 2020. It was also the last year my wife was still working and we had to go on vacation at the same time as everyone else. Nowadays we avoid going away in July and August...Anyway, this picturesque sea stack is known (somewhat pompously) as “Devil’s Tower” by the locals on Madeira Island. Getting down to ocean level is via a series of narrow and very steep stairs carved into the cliffside. Climbing up and down is precarious at best, a lot more so with fragile photo equipment, and finding a place to setup a tripod for a long exposure is not easy —see the behind-the-scenes iPhone snapshot below...Nikon Z7, Nikkor Z 24-70mm, ƒ/4 S lens. Gitzo tripod and ball-head. Long exposure, ND1000 filter.[ATTACH=full]416859[/ATTACH]BTS snap:[ATTACH=full]416860[/ATTACH]</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Blue439, post: 830602, member: 53455"] [B]Devil’s Tower (2019)[/B] In July 2019, we took a three-week trip to Portugal, one week on the mainland and two weeks in a rented house on the island of Madeira, in the middle of the Atlantic. That was our last “normal” Summer vacation before the Chinese virus hit in 2020 and we had to cancel our planned vacation in Crete in July 2020. It was also the last year my wife was still working and we had to go on vacation at the same time as everyone else. Nowadays we avoid going away in July and August... Anyway, this picturesque sea stack is known (somewhat pompously) as “Devil’s Tower” by the locals on Madeira Island. Getting down to ocean level is via a series of narrow and very steep stairs carved into the cliffside. Climbing up and down is precarious at best, a lot more so with fragile photo equipment, and finding a place to setup a tripod for a long exposure is not easy —see the behind-the-scenes iPhone snapshot below... Nikon Z7, Nikkor Z 24-70mm, ƒ/4 S lens. Gitzo tripod and ball-head. Long exposure, ND1000 filter. [ATTACH type="full"]416859[/ATTACH] BTS snap: [ATTACH type="full"]416860[/ATTACH] [/QUOTE]

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