Amy and I spent a couple days hiking in the Spanish Pyrénées. We stayed at a little farm/inn called Mas La Casanova, and hiked to the Queralbs station to take the rack railway up the steep river valley to Vall de Núria, then hiked from there.
The scenery was so enormous, it was hard to take it in.
Some of the terrain was craggy and inhospitable.
Other views looked bucolic and soft.
I thought a lot about photographic perspective. It helped to have someone little in the picture, to see how big the mountains and valley were.
Or, I could take a picture with a big subject, and the mountains behind. (Only later did we learn that some of the cows didn't like tourists, and occasionally a gored tourist would get hauled off to the hospital.)
Because of the scale of the landscape, we often had uneven lighting as clouds passed overhead. It was gorgeous, but only sometimes could my camera manage the dynamic range.
Even with the enormous scale of the countryside, t was also rewarding to look closely as well.
Photography is a form of curation. My photographs can't show everything I saw, or what was behind me, or the sound of the cowbells or the feel of the sun and wind on my face. But my hope is that good photographs can convey some of the glory of these mountains.
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