About the Image(s)

Keeping with an architectural theme for my image this month...... we visited Peru earlier this year during a round South America Cruise. We enjoyed the coastal desert landscapes and the coastal wildlife (including Humboldt Penguins) - but we also had 2 days exploring Lima which was developed by the Spanish in the 16C - the cathedral sits on a huge open square and suffered by huge earthquakes, the last of which was 1746. It was a fabulous building - I spent some time sitting looking upwards especially.

Anyway, as to this - I positioned myself as central to the roof patterns as I could and photographed the ceiling while on my knees looking directly up.

I've attached here the original Raw file as well as a Colour developed version. For better or worse, my workflow is to develop a colour version - then take a virtual copy for changing this in mono.

My work at phase 1 was to make the lighting more even across the ceiling panels - once working the mono version, much of the changes were to the B&W mix to bring out the contrast of colours as to light & dark more - finally I darkened the main pillars somewhat to help take the eye into the centre. That's what I tried to do anyway.