Art of the Photo: a study in light with a Toshiba PDR-M70
This play in light was taken with a small camera that remains the best digital Toshiba ever produced, after it finally gave up on the market one or two models later. Steadied against a six feet thick stone wall, the f1.2-2.5 Leica lens did justice to this scene, capturing the restful morning mood of a deserted balcony in a Portugese pousada, originally a monastery. Sip rich port every evening before an array of fine food after your sorties into the surrounding towns and woods and the most frazzling city dweller will be fully restored in a week.
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Monasteries and convents in Portugal were among the historic buildings turned into unusually interesting tourist hotels from the 1940s. This is a balcony in one of these forty or so so-called "pousadas", a thick (six foot) walled ex-monastery with an extensive garden, which provided a matchless study in light, captured well by the Leica lens of the PDR-M70, a small Toshiba digital, on September 5th, 2003, steadied against a wall (1/125 ISO 100 f4.393KB). (copyright. AL 2003) With their massively thick walls, extensive gardens, and gourmet dining, such pousadas are the ideal rest cure for the stressed, post hi-jacked, etc.
