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Mark and Marie
Our excursion in Geiranger in 2013 - our first ever cruise excursion in Norway - was a hike to a waterfall. We'd guessed that a tour marked as "strenuous" really meant "strenuous for cruise passengers" and that we'd be okay given our relative young age. Oh, boy were we wrong. It was hard work and we trailed behind the older but far fitter passengers on the hike. One other couple gave up, turned around, and went back to the ship, but we persevered and were rewarded with stunning views and a lovely experience walking behind the waterfall up the mountain.

I bought a cheap graduated filter for my camera and used it on this trip, thinking it would make sense with bright skies and dark rock to photograph. Good idea in theory. Graduated filters work fine with level territory but not so well with lots of jagged peaks to cope with. The results were not ideal and the cheap filter gave all the blues a purple tone that required a lot of processing to get to something good enough to post.

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It's a bright day with patchy sheets of thin cloud in the sky. We're on the slope of a hill that rises to our right and we're at a high elevation already. The ground is bumpy with plenty of grass but also lots of exposed pale rock and boulders, green-leafed bushes growing sporadically, and a couple of thin-trunked trees uppermost on our right. The rocky ground provides a little bit of a path partly lost in the grass but identified by the line of hikers making their way along it. We're part of the hiking group, trailing behind by half a dozen metres for the photo. These are people of all ages, all in short sleeves from the heat of the exertion, many with backpacks. The path they're on rises slowly to the right and out of view behind the slope of the hilly ground and trees. To the left there is a view under the sky of a mountainous hill of rock with fairly sheer front and patches of light greenery on its surface visible from this distance. We can surmise that we're climbing up one side of rocky landscape either side of a valley.
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