Date: July, 2014
Location: Korčula, Croatia
Description: This image represents a particularly enjoyable moment for me during our stay on the island of Korcula. As I was framing up this image, there was a classical violinist just out of site to the left of the archway. I took longer than usual with these images (I took 3 shots) because I was enjoying the music as well. When I think of the transportive ability of photography, I can look at this image and clearly recall the warmth and beautiful light of the summer evening, sea birds calling from the harbor to the right and the fine violin music punctuating the overall experience . . . and I came away with, what I feel, is quite a strong image. The important thing in this image was balancing the exposure and maintaining the detail through the far doorway which was at least 4 stops brighter than the foreground.