Stuck in Customs – Trey Ratcliff's Travel Photography blog with daily inspiration to motivate you!

Stuck In Customs

My daily travel blog to inspire and get you motivated!

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Well, that’s cool…

Love it or hate it… or somewhere in between, there is no denying that the advances in AI are pretty crazy. Here’s the tech launching for ChatGPT next month. Pretty clever!

The new chatgpt and Dall E 3 integration is magical. Seems personalized videos and movies are the next Frontier
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Life Admin

Daily Photo – Life Admin

Settling back into the studio after essentially being on the road since May is great but also filled with realisation of how stuff somehow needs to be attended to… Windows updates. Cleaning (somehow!), life admin… but then the fun creative stuff can begin again. Yay! Big plans are a cookin’.

Life Admin

Photo Information

  • Date Taken2013-12-28 12:13:57
  • CameraILCE-7R
  • Camera MakeSony
  • Exposure Time1/200
  • Aperture11
  • ISO100
  • Focal Length14.0 mm
  • FlashOff, Did not fire
  • Exposure ProgramAperture-priority AE
  • Exposure Bias

Threads

Just a quick reminder that I’m hanging out on Threads, posting away. Having fun. Head over there to follow me and drop a comment, have a chat. 🙂

(And yes, now it can be accessed in a browser and not just via an app. Yay!)

Luminar Neo – Now with Pano Functionality

If you missed the newsletter over the weekend (or the post yesterday about it) then you may have missed the recent Luminar news. So here it is… In a past newsletter, I talked a little bit about how my main workflow has moved away from Aurora HDR to Luminar Neo, now that it has HDR functionality available. That has continued to be the case and every image you saw in recent blog posts was processed on Luminar Neo. It’s a great bit of software and it has been interesting to watch it evolve. Most recently Skylum (finally!) added panorama functionality which removes yet another reason to stick with alternate software. You should definitely check it out. 🙂

New Newsletter

Head on over here to see my latest newsletter with a bunch of images and thoughts from my time in Scotland! (You can subscribe here if you don’t already…)

Trey Ratcliff Newsletter 257

Walking the Fairy Pools

Daily Photo – Walking the Fairy Pools

Where Allt Coir’ a’ Mhadaidh turns into the River Brittle you find the Fairy Pools on the Isle of Skye. It’s a series of hugely varied waterfalls and their associated pools which carve their way down through Glen Brittle towards the sea. The water is an amazing blue/green color, most of the way, picking up darker tones in the more deep and shadowed areas. Well worth a visit, even when conditions are not ideal as it makes for a “refreshing” hike… or swim if you’re so inclined.

Walking the Fairy Pools

Photo Information

  • Date Taken2023-06-20 05:19:22
  • CameraILCE-7RM3
  • Camera MakeSony
  • Exposure Time1/320
  • Aperture4
  • ISO250
  • Focal Length66.0 mm
  • FlashOff, Did not fire
  • Exposure ProgramAperture-priority AE
  • Exposure Bias

The Weary Traveller Returns Home

Daily Photo – The Weary Traveller Returns Home

Queenstown, I am in you…

The Weary Traveller Returns Home

Photo Information

  • Date Taken2020-04-16 14:41:57
  • CameraPixel 4
  • Camera MakeGoogle
  • Exposure Time1/900
  • Aperture2.4
  • ISO41
  • Focal Length5.8 mm
  • FlashOff, Did not fire
  • Exposure ProgramProgram AE
  • Exposure Bias

Unexploring Auckland

Daily Photo – Unexploring Auckland

Next up on the 3 day trek home… Auckland. Which reminds me that I really need to go there and spend a good week or so exploring. I’m there often but 99% of the time it’s basically a hub to use for exit/entry to NZ. So this is about the only image I’ve processed from there. That needs to change!

Unexploring Auckland

Photo Information

  • Date Taken2013-08-06 06:08:15
  • CameraNEX-7
  • Camera MakeSony
  • Exposure Time10
  • Aperture13
  • ISO100
  • Focal Length12.0 mm
  • FlashOff, Did not fire
  • Exposure ProgramAperture-priority AE
  • Exposure Bias

Stopping in Fiji

Daily Photo – Stopping in Fiji

Next up on the trip back home, a whopping 3hrs in Fiji! Here’s a favorite from a previous trip. I expect this stopover to be a little less scenic.

Stopping in Fiji

Photo Information

  • Date Taken2019-01-24 22:42:07
  • CameraFC2204
  • Camera MakeDJI
  • Exposure Time1/15
  • Aperture3.8
  • ISO200
  • Focal Length8.6 mm
  • FlashNo Flash
  • Exposure ProgramProgram AE
  • Exposure Bias

Heading Home

Daily Photo – Heading Home

After a much needed (and enjoyed) trip to spend time with the family, now it’s time to make the long journey back to NZ. First stop on an epic 3 day trek… LA.

Heading Home

Photo Information

  • Date Taken2012-02-27 21:16:46
  • CameraNIKON D3X
  • Camera MakeNikon
  • Exposure Time30
  • Aperture11
  • ISO125
  • Focal Length300.0 mm
  • FlashNo Flash
  • Exposure ProgramAperture-priority AE
  • Exposure Bias+2