Shadow puzzle

In the alcove there are two lights above the water fountains and two water fountains... so why are there three dark shadows on the floor. Of course once you carefully study the light and shadows it does make sense, but it does take some thought.

As the sun sets

Shot at thirty-thousand feet on my iPhone.

Colorful cruise ship

Strasbourg in the rain

Canal retaining wall comes alive

 

Rose window

Strasbourg Cathedral or the Cathedral of Our Lady of Strasbourg France.

Somewhere on the Rhine

On my recent European river cruise I brought along my M4/3 camera and lenses but ended up shooting almost exclusively with my iPhone 15 Pro. My experience has been that the iPhone does as good, or sometimes even better, than my Lumix GM5... and it is so convenient compared to the "bulky"(really, that mini camera!) full-time camera.

The Apple provided camera app does a good job but I experimented with a number of other alternatives. In this case I used the new Adobe Indigo app that proudly lists "computational photography" as one of its virtues. This is obviously somewhat controversial. Purests even scoff at the "A" (auto) setting on cameras and computational photography takes things to a whole new level. One advantage of the Indigo app is that is allows seamless integration with Lightroom, my usual editing software (with occasional side trips to PhotoShop). 

As most photo apps these days, Indigo automatically takes multiple exposures and under the hood does its magic to cook-up the final image. I believe because I was on a moving boat this contributed to the water effect in this image, although it could also just be the result to the wave action of the river.

I do like the resulting image which seems a bit dreamy in my opinion. What are your thoughts?

Like a castle