I took a few shots of this scene, including on film, but I like this one where the guy’s red hat matched the shirt of the person beside the pool.
Ricoh GRIII
Taken on 28 June 2026
Above the lido
Tag: swimming pool
Hotel overlook
No, not the one from The Shining!
This is a view overlooking the lawn area beside one of our hotel’s swimming pools (there were three – one indoor, and another outdoor pool on the same level from which I took this picture). The hotel was quite maze-like and it took almost until the end of our holiday to get a decent feel for how the different areas and levels all interconnected.
The white building in the picture is also part of the complex and housed one of the hotel’s a la carte restaurants on its ground floor (which is a floor below what you can see here!). The hotel reception is below the swimming pool.
This was shot on our first day at the hotel. We had a couple of days where it became quite overcast in the afternoon, although even on otherwise sunny days, the mountain tops would usually be lost to cloud come mid-afternoon.
Ricoh GRIII
Taken on 22 June 2026
Holiday posting – a reflection
I’ve returned home after a week long holiday with my wife in Dubrovnik, Croatia. Normally, when I’m going to be away from my computer for a few days, I will pre-write a bunch of posts and schedule them to auto-publish while I’m absent. This time I decided to do something different.
As I knew I would be taking a digital camera (my Ricoh GRIIi compact) on the trip as well as a film camera, I figured I would take the chance that I could transfer the images to my phone and then edit and publish them from there. There was a risk that this would go awry and I would end up publishing text only posts, but it was one I felt safe to accept.
As it turned out, I had no problems at all. I was easily able to transfer RAW files from the camera to my phone and then edit them in Lightroom Mobile. It was a little trickier than on my PC, and I had some concerns that my editing might suffer given I only had the phone screen to judge the final results, but they seem to have turned out ok.
I shot a few tolls of film on the trip too, but it will be a while before I’m able to develop, scan, and publish those, but they will appear here at some point. I ‘m currently in one of my surplus periods where film negatives are concerned and have several rolls of images backing up, so I have plenty of stuff to publish here on the blog.
The picture shared today is another of the digital pictures made on the trip, although this one has been edited on my PC and uploaded to Flickr before adding to the blog. It shows the tranquil waters of one of the hotel’s swimming pools reflecting a lovely blue hour sky.
Ricoh GRIII
Taken on 28 May 2024
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