nicholas1983, what a pleasure to have your audience again.

I've been balancing quite a bit more curation lately with some of my own writing when I can free up a good amount of time to get some solid writing done!

I think it's hard to separate photos from the narrative / descriptions sometimes. Each rely on one another so the overall "quality" is dependent on the worse of the two. Writing isn't actually one of my strong points so I like to let some of the photography help me out with the story telling and I'm lucky that in this world of competitive attention, that seems to be the way things are headed.

As for making the photos clear and vivid, I must say, I struggled with this for a very long time, and actually continue to do so. From this set of photos, I had to go through several hundred more 'outtakes' which just didn't make the cut because of how mediocre they turned out. Obviously, I had to do quite a bit of work on various post editing programs like photoshop etc. to make the images more consistent with each other. The excessive sunlight actually makes it difficult to get shots with consistent lighting, and almost always requires some touch up afterwards.

Thank you for once again for visiting my post, and of course leaving a very valuable comment.